[talk-au] Victorian Vicmap Address Import Proposal

[Andrew Harvey]

Thanks for the feedback Seb.

On Wed, 19 May 2021, at 4:47 PM, Sebastian Spiess wrote:
> You will also need to detail how to deal with Unit numbers. For the NSW 
> import there where many single houses that had several entries like 12A, 
> 12B and 12-2 Lakewook Road. Do you import them as individual nodes? or 
> just one omitting A/B/2?

In the import code I've written, where those units are at different locations then they'll import as addr:unit on each node.

Where there are multiple overlapping points with only different unit values, they are consolidated into a single node with addr:flats https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:flats. addr:flats lists all the units at the address. Very useful for a 100+ unit apartment block where it doesn't make sense to have 100+ different address points on top of each other in OSM.

> Not sure if I want to convince you.
> To me this sounds like different names for the same thing. Aren't City 
> or Suburb just different words for the next level up from Street?

Not quite, in the urban areas a city or Sydney or Melbourne is broken up into suburbs, so you might be in the suburb of Brunswick which is still in Melbourne (the city, but different to the City of Melbourne which is the LGA). So the city and suburb are different and it's only the suburb/locality used for addressing, not the city.

> 
> The Auspost is referring to 'placename/suburb/locality' page 25 
> https://auspost.com.au/content/dam/auspost_corp/media/documents/australia-post-addressing-standards-1999.pdf

Yeah suburb/locality/placename not the city.