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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hi all,<br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">During the discussion
of cleaning up municipality names in Canada, it was suggested
that the addr:city could be removed entirely if the appropriate
boundaries are defined. I would hazard to guess (and will
endeavour to investigate) that the addr:city and the boundaries
do not always align in Canada (there are ~11300 administrative
boundaries of some type and there are ~7000 unique addr:city
tags)... so this will be a much more long term effort.</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">However, the provincial/territorial
boundaries are defined, so removing the addr:country,
addr:provice and addr:state tags might be a more reasonable at
this time. (addr:country is used ~94% less than addr:street)<br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Tags, by number of
occurrences:<br>
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<p><tt> 167902 addr:country</tt></p>
<p><tt></tt><tt> 33252 addr:state</tt></p>
<p><tt></tt><tt> 179741 addr:province</tt></p>
<p><tt></tt><tt>2950115 addr:city</tt></p>
<p><tt></tt><tt>2942159 addr:street</tt></p>
<p><tt>2934341 addr:housenumber<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="70">--
Matthew Darwin
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:matthew@mdarwin.ca">matthew@mdarwin.ca</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mdarwin.ca">http://www.mdarwin.ca</a></pre>
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