[talk-au] Consistent addr:state format?

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

G'day Justin & welcome!

Asking any question that you've got is quite definitely the best way of
doing things - thanks!

I agree fully about the acronyms rather than spelling the name in full,
with the exception that I personally use Qld rather than QLD.

If I was down there, I'd probably also use Tas, but all capitals for the
others.

I don't think there's any hard & fast rules for capitalisation though?

Thanks

Graeme


On Sun, 30 Jan 2022 at 00:32, tabjsina <sinatabrizi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm new to this mailing list (and mailing lists in general), apologies
> if I'm doing it wrong :)
>
> I've recently made a maproulette challenge which asked users to confirm
> updating any populating addr:state value in Western Australia to "WA",
> if it was something else. Previously, about 90% were already "WA", 9%
> were a variation like "Western Australia", "wa" (lowercase), and the
> remaining were something completely wrong, like "AU" or a suburb/city name.
>
> Now that WA is all fixed, I was looking at other states, and noticed
> that, while most states also had a similar 90% rate of using acronym,
> NSW and moreso VIC had a closer split between the acronym and the full
> name.
>
> Before I go ahead with setting up this maproulette challenge for the
> rest of the country, I wanted to get some thoughts on whether it makes
> sense to standardize around using acronyms (WA, ACT, NSW, NT, QLD, VIC,
> SA, TAS), full name (Western Australia, Australian Capital Territory,
> etc), or whether we should not be trying to standardise this value at all.
>
> Thanks,
> Justin
>
>
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