[talk-au] Victorian Vicmap Address Import Proposal

[cleary]

Thanks Andrew. A considered and thoughtful response. I support your proposed actions. Your work for OSM is always very good and much appreciated.



On Tue, 8 Jun 2021, at 2:59 PM, Andrew Harvey via Talk-au wrote:
> To sum up the contentious issue of suburb, postcode, state tags,
> 
> - Phil, Daniel and Seb would prefer the suburb and postcode on each 
> address object.
> - Andrew Davidson and cleary would prefer we not include suburb and 
> postcode on each address object and instead require data consumers to 
> derive this data from the existing boundaries, and actively discourage 
> mappers manually adding this data via removing the preset in ID.
> 
> Thinking further I'd support including the full address details on each 
> address object, to provide a complete address, even if duplicated by 
> the boundary. QA tools could be built to validate these match the admin 
> boundaries and it becomes a maintenance task to maintain these tags, 
> but I think that's okay.
> 
> However, to avoid stalling this import on this issue (it doesn't sound 
> like anyone will change their mind soon), I'll plan the minimum viable 
> option of excluding addr:suburb, addr:postcode and addr:state from the 
> import.
> 
> There's nothing stopping a further discussion of a planned automated 
> edit to update address objects with suburb, postcode and state if the 
> community changes their mind later on.
> 
> I'll make these changes to the import code, then once I've completed 
> all the documentation and remaining issues hopefully post some import 
> candidate files if anyone would like to review.
> 
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