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Hi Stewart,<br>
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Thanks for replying. <br>
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Stewart C. Russell wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:367b16d6-2a81-e7c2-9010-f5fc46bb7907@gmail.com">
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<pre wrap="">Alternately my proposal would be to:
* change addr:state => addr:province
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Yes: addr:state is always wrong in Canada, but addr:province might be
problematic for territories and First Nations reservations.</pre>
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Yep. Is there an alternate tag though?<br>
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cite="mid:367b16d6-2a81-e7c2-9010-f5fc46bb7907@gmail.com">
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<pre wrap=""> * add ~2.7 million missing addr:province / addr:country where they
don't exist
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No. Please don't do that. We have boundaries for that, so all you would
be doing is adding redundant rows to the database.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Addresses">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Addresses</a> says:
Tags such as addr:country=*, addr:city=* and addr:postcode=* are
often redundant as features inside administrative boundaries
(when mapped) "inherit" their attributes as supported by
software such as Nominatim or Photon.
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I really have no plans to do a huge edit to add what is essentially
duplicate information. :-)<br>
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<pre wrap=""> * an then then to standardize what we are putting into those fields.
eg for addr:province in Ontario
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Yes, if there's an address that can show the need of having an
addr:province tag. The choice of value would be arbitrary: Ontario is
official, ON is a postal convention.</pre>
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The wiki <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr</a> says for <a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:province"
class="mw-redirect" title="Key:addr:province">addr:province</a><i>:
The </i><i><span class="plainlinks" title="wikipedia:en:province"><a
rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:province"><bdi>province</bdi></a></span></i><i>
of the object. For Canada, uppercase two-letter postal
abbreviations (</i><i><b>BC</b></i><i>, </i><i><b>AB</b></i><i>,
</i><i><b>ON</b></i><i>, </i><i><b>QC</b></i><i>, etc.) are used.
In Russia a synonym addr:region is widely used
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</i>So it looks like the English abbreviation should be used,
however, in practice it is not always. Here are the top values in
Canada:<br>
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<tt> 66885 <tag k="addr:province" v="Nova
Scotia"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 41104 <tag k="addr:province"
v="ON"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 33222 <tag k="addr:province"
v="British Columbia"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 7507 <tag k="addr:province"
v="Alberta"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 6089 <tag k="addr:province"
v="AB"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 4701 <tag k="addr:province"
v="BC"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 4258 <tag k="addr:province"
v="Québec"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 4257 <tag k="addr:province"
v="Ontario"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 2790 <tag k="addr:province"
v="QC"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 2134 <tag k="addr:province"
v="NB"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 1742 <tag k="addr:province"
v="SK"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 1285 <tag k="addr:province"
v="NU"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 1019 <tag k="addr:province"
v="Manitoba"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 799 <tag k="addr:province" v="New
Brunswick"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 778 <tag k="addr:province"
v="NL"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 518 <tag k="addr:province"
v="Quebec"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 323 <tag k="addr:province"
v="ontario"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 278 <tag k="addr:province"
v="PE"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 234 <tag k="addr:province"
v="NS"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 219 <tag k="addr:province"
v="MB"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 219 <tag k="addr:province"
v="alberta"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 199 <tag k="addr:province"
v="Qc"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 166 <tag k="addr:province"
v="Newfoundland and Labrador"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 163 <tag k="addr:province"
v="Saskatchewan"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 122 <tag k="addr:province"
v="saskatchewan"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 117 <tag k="addr:province"
v="Newfoundland"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 113 <tag k="addr:province"
v="On"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 89 <tag k="addr:province:fr"
v="Manitoba"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 66 <tag k="addr:province"
v="quebec"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 62 <tag k="addr:province"
v="Mb"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 43 <tag k="addr:province"
v="on"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 43 <tag k="addr:province"
v="manitoba"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 37 <tag k="addr:province"
v="bc"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 35 <tag k="addr:province"
v="qc"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 27 <tag k="addr:province"
v="British␣Columbia"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 27 <tag k="addr:province"
v="b.c."/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 24 <tag k="addr:province"
v="PEI"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 23 <tag k="addr:province"
v="Nunavut"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 21 <tag k="addr:province"
v="mb"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 21 <tag k="addr:province:fr"
v="Alberta"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 17 <tag k="addr:province"
v="nb"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 14 <tag k="addr:province"
v="NT"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 14 <tag k="addr:province"
v="B.C."/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 13 <tag k="addr:province:fr"
v="Colombie-Britannique"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 12 <tag k="addr:province:fr"
v="Saskatchewan"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 11 <tag k="addr:province"
v="YT"/></tt><tt><br>
</tt><br>
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