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p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>Some specific topics for discussion/feedback I have so far are:<br></div><div><br></div><div>1. How should we handle existing address interpolation ways? Should these be left as they are or replaced with individually mapped address points? I'm proposing we replace.<br></div><div><br></div><div>2. Should we also import `addr:suburb`, `addr:state` and `addr:postcode` tags? I'm proposing we do.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Given postcode regions aren't mapped, then adding these to the address should be very helpful.<br></div><div><br></div><div>`addr:state` is less important given these addresses fall within the Victoria state admin boundary already. The wiki touches on this saying "A few mappers consider higher-level tags, or even addr:city=* as redundant, since they could be calculated from the respective boundary relations they are contained in (if present and valid). However, such practice has severe disadvantages and can lead to wrong results."<br></div><div><br></div><div>Either way, I don't think it matters too much, but since it's not harmful to include, and might provide some benefit, then we may as well include `addr:state`?<br></div><div><br></div><div>`addr:suburb` is similar to `addr:state`, suburb/locality boundaries are already well mapped in Victoria. Since we have this detail from the source data I think we probably should still include it.<br></div><div><br></div><div>3. `addr:suburb` vs `addr:city`.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Both tags are in use within Australia. According to taginfo (<a href="https://taginfo.geofabrik.de/australia-oceania/australia/search?q=addr%3A">https://taginfo.geofabrik.de/australia-oceania/australia/search?q=addr%3A</a>) within Australia addr:suburb occurs 521 ,671 times and addr:city 562,542 times.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The iD address preset fields uses addr:suburb.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Victoria only has a handful of place=city objects (<a href="https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/17vc">https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/17vc</a>), Melbourne, Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo, Shepparton, Warrnambool, Traralgon, Bairnsdale, Wangaratta, Wodonga, Horsham, Mildura.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Because for addressing, it's the suburb/locality that appears on the address not the city (eg. Melbourne place/city covers the whole greater melbourne urban area, but not all the addresses here include "Melbourne", only those within the CBD area where the Melbourne place=suburb exists.<br></div><div><br></div><div>While in rural areas it's a locality not a suburb, the two usually go hand in hand, and I'd say it's okay to still tag these as addr:suburb even though it's technically a locality and not a suburb.</div><div><br></div><div>In this way I'd argue that addr:city has no place in Australia (convince me otherwise).<br></div><div><br></div><div>Maybe for this import, where we find an address existing in OSM and it has addr:city which matches the addr:suburb from our Vicmap address, then we automatically swap it to addr:suburb?</div><div><br></div></body></html>