[talk-au] Victorian Vicmap Address Import Proposal

[Andrew Harvey]

Thanks for the feedback cleary.

On Wed, 19 May 2021, at 7:11 PM, cleary wrote:
> In regard to addr:suburb and addr:city,  I have always tried to match 
> the address with the designation in OSM. So if an address is in a 
> bounded area identified as "place=town" then I added addr:town=*  or 
> for a hamlet it would be addr:hamlet=*  etc.   Localities are by 
> definition, unpopulated places so it would be unusual to have 
> addr:locality=  as almost all "localities" would be small places 
> located within bounded areas such as hamlets, towns, etc.   Bounded 
> areas that have no shops, schools, amenities (or almost none) would 
> usually be place=hamlet  as they are identified bounded areas usually 
> with a population. For the purposes of the import, it might be too 
> diffiicult to separate OSM's various place classifications 
> city/suburb/town/village/hamlet etc so I would support  addr:suburb=* 
> as better than nothing.

Good point, but ultimately I still would agree with your last point about just using addr:suburb. While possible to determine the OSM place classification, it's tricky to do, and then given some places might have wrong place classifications, or those might change over time, so keeping them always in sync with the addresess wouldn't be worth it.

When I say locality here I mean in the Australian placenames context, which is different to the OSM context (where as you point out it means unpopulated places).

While using addr:suburb as a catch all doesn't sound ideal, it's probably a reasonable compromise in my opinion. The address itself doesn't care if it's a suburb or town or other place name, it's treated the same in the addressing system.