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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">In general abbreviations and commas are avoided in tagging OpenStreetMap wide, so no don’t add a comma but add an appropriate tag.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The Australian tagging guidelines
<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines/Land_and_boundaries">
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines/Land_and_boundaries</a> don’t have an example using a node as a label, but the suburb of Cremorne, NSW does,
<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5655122">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5655122</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">So in the case of Scarborough, the relation
<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11677688">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11677688</a> should have the node
<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/268549421">https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/268549421</a> added as a “label”. This will then show up as the “centre” of Scarborough.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The node
<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/268549421">https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/268549421</a> should have the name changed back to just “Scarborough” and the population tags moved to the relation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Alex</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Nev W <nevwosm2@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, 21 September 2022 at 8:22 pm<br>
<b>To: </b>talk OSM Australian List <Talk-au@openstreetmap.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[talk-au] Place name as name=Scarborough, Queensland, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I have noticed that place names are altered to add the state, or country, city in OSM.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Here is an example <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/268549421/history">https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/268549421/history</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I have tried correcting what I see as incorrect tagging.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">But on reflection, is it ok to define the place with the addition of a comma and further definition?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Is there something on the wiki to point these mappers to that clarifies this?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dsuburb">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dsuburb</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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