[Imports] Latvia-bot

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Jan 3, 2023, 13:38 by davisklavins at gmail.com:

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> On Tue, 3 Jan 2023 at 11:56, Sarah Hoffmann <> lonvia at denofr.de> > wrote:
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>> I strongly recommend that you describe the exact changes you want to do
>>  before you do any further uploads to the database. The public database
>>  is not a playground for yo to toy around with until you get it right.
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>>  On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 10:58:30AM +0200, Dāvis Kļaviņš wrote:
>>  > On Tue, 3 Jan 2023 at 10:19, Sarah Hoffmann <>> lonvia at denofr.de>> > wrote:
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>>  > > Unfortunately, you have now broken the addresses which do not have a
>>  > > street. These are the ones were you need addr:place.
>>  > >
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>>  > When you point to such a fact, I was able to find at Key:addr:place
>>  > <>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:place>> > that "it is okay to
>>  > have both addr:place=* and addr:city=* with the same value on the same
>>  > object". Will fix it. At the same time, there is nothing written about it
>>  > at Key:addr:city <>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:city>> >,
>>  > although there should be.
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>>  addr:place and addr:city may appear together when they refer to
>>  different places which both would appear in the postal address. Do not
>>  duplicate them when they refer to the same place or datausers will
>>  interpret the address wrong.
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> Then why does the wiki state that "it is okay to have both addr:place=* and addr:city=* > with the same value on the same object> "? It's rather impossible to do things right when wiki says one thing, but some other user says the opposite.
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It is entirely normal to discover during such discussion that OSM Wiki had confusing/
badly worded/misleading descriptions.

Sometimes updating or extending OSM Wiki documentation takes large part of such
effort (it happened to me few times when I was adding new functionality).

Self-contradictory description at OSM Wiki is one of reasons why discussing very 
large edits before doing them is a good idea.

And yes, https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:place would benefit from clarifying
what is claimed there.
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