[Tagging] addr:town

[Timeo Gut]

As for the Philippines addr:town essentially always contains the name of 
the major location in an address.

The bulk of these occurences were added in a manual import of 40.000+ 
public schools where addr:town tag was assigned over addr:city for all 
schools that are located in municipalities (mapped as place=town in OSM) 
and not cities. Additionally large batches of these addr tags were 
introduced through mass-edits adding many hundreds to thousands in 
single changesets. Only a minor fraction was added by mappers on 
individual basis, most likely inspired by pre-existing tags from above 
mentioned import. Double tagging is a minor issue with only 280 
instances with identical value in addr:city and addr:town.

I'm curious to hear about the origin of addr:town usage in the other 
mentioned countries.

- Timmy_Tesseract


On 2022-09-25 15:36, Andrew Hain wrote:
>
> Clearly mappers in Bosnia, South Korea, Australia and particularly the 
> Philippines should be asked about this. I am also concerned that the 
> current description (“The town of the object that forms part of the 
> address”) encourages using the tag instead of addr:city.
>
> --
>
> Andrew
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* 24 September 2022 16:07
> *To:* Tag discussion, strategy and related tools 
> <tagging at openstreetmap.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Tagging] addr:town
>
>
> Am Sa., 24. Sept. 2022 um 13:38 Uhr schrieb Andrew Hain 
> <andrewhainosm at hotmail.co.uk>:
>
>     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>
>
>
> 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
>
> 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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