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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Hi Folks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>The main reason I have used capitals in the state is because of Address Presentation Standards with Australia Post<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><a href="https://auspost.com.au/content/dam/auspost_corp/media/documents/australia-post-addressing-standards-1999.pdf">https://auspost.com.au/content/dam/auspost_corp/media/documents/australia-post-addressing-standards-1999.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Having said that, I don’t use capitals for suburbs!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Cheers - Phil<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1@gmail.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, 30 January 2022 10:10 AM<br><b>To:</b> tabjsina <sinatabrizi@gmail.com><br><b>Cc:</b> OSM-Au <talk-au@openstreetmap.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [talk-au] Consistent addr:state format?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>G'day Justin & welcome!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Asking any question that you've got is quite definitely the best way of doing things - thanks!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I agree fully about the acronyms rather than spelling the name in full, with the exception that I personally use Qld rather than QLD.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>If I was down there, I'd probably also use Tas, but all capitals for the others. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I don't think there's any hard & fast rules for capitalisation though?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Graeme<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sun, 30 Jan 2022 at 00:32, tabjsina <<a href="mailto:sinatabrizi@gmail.com">sinatabrizi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal>Hello,<br><br>I'm new to this mailing list (and mailing lists in general), apologies <br>if I'm doing it wrong :)<br><br>I've recently made a maproulette challenge which asked users to confirm <br>updating any populating addr:state value in Western Australia to "WA", <br>if it was something else. Previously, about 90% were already "WA", 9% <br>were a variation like "Western Australia", "wa" (lowercase), and the <br>remaining were something completely wrong, like "AU" or a suburb/city name.<br><br>Now that WA is all fixed, I was looking at other states, and noticed <br>that, while most states also had a similar 90% rate of using acronym, <br>NSW and moreso VIC had a closer split between the acronym and the full name.<br><br>Before I go ahead with setting up this maproulette challenge for the <br>rest of the country, I wanted to get some thoughts on whether it makes <br>sense to standardize around using acronyms (WA, ACT, NSW, NT, QLD, VIC, <br>SA, TAS), full name (Western Australia, Australian Capital Territory, <br>etc), or whether we should not be trying to standardise this value at all.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Justin<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Talk-au mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Talk-au@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">Talk-au@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></body></html>