[talk-au] Consistent addr:state format?

[Phil Wyatt]

Hi Folks,

 

The main reason I have used capitals in the state is because of Address Presentation Standards with Australia Post

 

https://auspost.com.au/content/dam/auspost_corp/media/documents/australia-post-addressing-standards-1999.pdf

 

Having said that, I don’t use capitals for suburbs!

 

Cheers - Phil

 

From: Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com> 
Sent: Sunday, 30 January 2022 10:10 AM
To: tabjsina <sinatabrizi at gmail.com>
Cc: OSM-Au <talk-au at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [talk-au] Consistent addr:state format?

 

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 <mailto: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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