[Imports] [Imports-us] Address Data Import for Fulton County, Georgia

Serge Wroclawski emacsen at gmail.com
Mon Jan 13 14:39:31 UTC 2014


On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Saikrishna Arcot <saiarcot895 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using the capitalization of the street name as it is in OSM.
>
> Technically, shouldn't the city name in OpenStreetMap match the
> legal/geographical city and not the postal city?

Technically the city name in OSM should match the local name, whatever that is.

If the government calls it Footown but the locals call it Barville,
it's Barville.

We have other tags for official names, if they differ from the local names.

- Serge



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