[Tagging] addr:town

[Andrew Hain]

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.
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Andrew
Addresses in the United Kingdom - OpenStreetMap Wiki<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Addresses_in_the_United_Kingdom#Address_tags>
There are also several tags that have been used in the UK which shouldn't have been. These include addr:locality, addr:subdistrict and addr:site.See the tags to avoid section below. Please note that addr:district (Local Authority area), addr:county and addr:country have also been added to the tags to avoid section. This is because all three can be automatically determined using the admin ...
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