[Imports] Latvia-bot

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Jan 2, 2023, 14:10 by davisklavins at gmail.com:

> Thank you for the clarification! Updated everything as it makes sense to use one tag for all types of settlements and description of the tag matches the use case ("the name of the largest settlement (city / town / other) that is included in the address").
>
If you try to redefine tags then it should be clearly done, not hidden in a bot import proposal.

> At the same time, tags addr:town, addr:village and addr:hamlet are used in OSM, but not all of them even have a wiki page in English.
>
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:addr:town&action=history
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:addr:hamlet&action=history

>  Originally, addr:place was chosen for the bot to avoid separate tags addr:village and addr:hamlet which also were not used as much.
>
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:place has a documented meaning that is
quite consistently used

>
>  Addr:city seemed to be misleading for some users due to its name indicating city. If I started from scratch defining address tags for OSM, I would use addr:place for all these cases as its name better indicates that various types of settlements are included.
>
And I would swap highway=road and highway=unclassified.
See also 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Counterintuitive_keys_and_values

But in case of redefinition attempt I would clearly propose it, rather than doing it as
a part of bot edit.

>
>  For me, it doesn't seem logical to define separate tag only for cases when there is no street as using the same settlement tag when there is one seems fine. In Latvia, when there is no street, addr:housename is used instead of addr:housenumber.
>
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:housename is for names, not for 
housenumber without street name.

Please, do not try to redefine tags if you would define them differently in case
of you starting to create tag definitions without consulting others.
It results in things being broken in affected area for anyone using standard tag
definitions.
Please, roll back that changes and do them again with standard tag meanings.
If you want to redefine widely used tags used by many others please start from
asking others rather than breaking geocoding, address display and all that.
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