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<p>+ 1 for the name without state, country. Those can be found by
the enclosing features, there is no need to add tags 'is_in'.</p>
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<p>Careful with populations.. they might be for the town and not the
area.. would need checking? <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 21/9/22 22:03, Nev wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Thanks Alex,</div>
<div dir="ltr">that’s very helpful to me.</div>
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<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>
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<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"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">
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"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5655122</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11677688</a>
should have the node
<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/268549421"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">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>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The
node
<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/268549421"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">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>
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W <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:nevwosm2@gmail.com"><nevwosm2@gmail.com></a><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, 21 September 2022 at 8:22 pm<br>
<b>To: </b>talk OSM Australian List
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<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"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">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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moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dsuburb</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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