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I tend to agree. I live in a hamlet 10 miles from the post town. In
no way is it a suburb, and it seems irrational for it to be
described as such.<br>
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Roger<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15/01/2022 12:25, Mark Goodge wrote:<br>
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On 14/01/2022 19:07, Rob Nickerson wrote:
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If you have an address which has some settlement name before the
postal town then there are only ever two tags that you need:
addr:suburb and addr:city. The case we haven't yet worked out
how to handle is when the address includes 3 settlements /
settlement sub areas ("locality elements" in RM language). At
that point we use addr:suburb for the smallest, addr:city for
the largest and an as yet undefined tag for the middle.
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So "suburb" in addr:suburb should also not be interpreted based
on our view of what a suburb is or isn't.
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The problem with this is that it goes against the normal meaning
of the word "suburb" in British English. Not every OSM editor is
reading this list, and not every OSM editor is going to read the
wiki. So not every editor is going to realise that "suburb" means
something different in OSM to what it does in everyday use. Which
means that people will, whether you want them to or not, use
addr:hamlet, addr:village, addr:town or whatever seems most
appropriate, because they simply don't know that OSM addr:* tags
don't follow normal English usage, and, without reading either the
wiki or this list, have no way of knowing.
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It seems to me there are really only three possible solutions to
this:
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1. Find some way to prevent people adding or editing addr:* tags
until they have shown they have read and understood the wiki.
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2. Have an ongoing project of repeatedly correcting the wrong use
of addr:* tags.
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3. Stop caring about it, and accept that, in the UK, addr:* tags
will be, and can be, duck-tagged.
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The first may seem attractive (and would result in a much cleaner
dataset), but I really don't see how it could be enforced. The
second is a lot of work, and is likely to result in edit wars
where people think that their edits are being wrongly changed by
people who don't understand the situation on the ground ("No,
Kidsgrove isn't a suburb of Stoke-on-Trent, it's a town in its own
right"). So it seems to me that only the last is a practical
choice. It may upset the purists, but if we genuinely want to
encourage more OSM users to become OSM editors then we need to
accept that commonly used tags have to follow normal English usage
rather than requiring people to adopt non-standard and
non-intuitive terminology.
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Mark
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<p>Roger Calvert<br>
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