<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Yes this is an interesting issue.. A lot of people were pretty upset when the `addr:unit` field started appearing in their address field. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Field was added here: <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/pull/4235" class="">https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/pull/4235</a></div><div class="">At the time it seemed pretty harmless.</div><div class="">(I locked discussion on that issue because it was getting too noisy - we really don’t need to discuss how address work in all parts of the world)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I mostly take a pretty hands-off approach to this field - I’d like for people to be able to map addresses however they want to in their country, and I don’t spend a lot of time tracking down what addresses look like around the world, so we rely on local contributors to update the source code with pull requests.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think there are several things going on here:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. Some places really don’t have a concept of `addr:unit` - there are just no addresses split up by floor, apartment, etc.</div><div class=""> (The best thing to do is to remove the field)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2. Some places do have this concept, but they don’t call it `unit`, so seeing the word “unit” in the UI is confusing</div><div class=""> (The best thing to do is probably rename the field, maybe “Apt/Floor/Unit” or something else?)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">3. Some places do have this concept, but it is so rare that people don’t want to see it in the UI</div><div class=""> (The best thing to do is - whatever local mappers want. Still, “rare” does not mean “useless".)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">4. Some places do not have a dedicated address format, so they see the “default” format which looks kind of European and had `addr:unit` added to it recently</div><div class=""> (I removed the field from the “default” format, since opinions on this field are so mixed)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks, Bryan</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 22, 2018, at 12:55 PM, Steve Doerr <<a href="mailto:doerr.stephen@gmail.com" class="">doerr.stephen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">From the change log:<br class="">'remove addr:unit field for gb, ie, si, tr'. <br class=""><br class="">I wonder why (re gb). Unit is quite a common element in UK addresses, isn't it?<br class=""><br class="">Steve <br class=""><br class="">Sent from my iPhone<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I hope everyone takes a look at the changelog.<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">talk mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org" class="">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br class="">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>