[Tagging] addr:town

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Sep 24, 2022, 17:07 by dieterdreist at gmail.com:

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> Am Sa., 24. Sept. 2022 um 13:38 Uhr schrieb Andrew Hain <> andrewhainosm at hotmail.co.uk> >:
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>> The key addr:town is currently documented as de facto [>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q1070>> ][>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:town>> ]. However investigations in the UK have found it to generally be a mistake for addr:city or addr:suburb[>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Addresses_in_the_United_Kingdom#Address_tags>> ]. Should it be deprecated?
>> addr:town <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q1070>
>> The town of the object that forms part of the address.
>> wiki.openstreetmap.org <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org>
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> In the areas I know this tag should not be used, but addresses can be very different globally. Looking at taginfo, this seems to be a regional thing (some mix ups with addr:city aside): > https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/addr%3Atown#map
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> Still looking at taginfo, I see on 35% in combination with addr:city, or 41k items, it's these that may indicate there could be something behind it, intention rather than confusion ;-)
> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/addr%3Atown#combinations
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Has anyone researched this? If yes, I would encourage documenting this on
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:town
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