[talk-au] Consistent addr:state format?

[Andrew Harvey]

Many people would be mapping because iD has a template which includes
state, so people see an empty field and try to enter more complete
information. Many people new to OSM don't know that addresses inherit state
and suburb from the existing boundaries.

>From the VIC address import work there was opposition to including
addr:state so this hasn't been included (I'm hoping to finalise that with
the final import files and import date very soon), and it was proposed
removing the suburb and state fields from the address template in iD. Also
in that thread there were a few reasons given for also including the
state/suburb tags (easier to obtain this info when querying specific
addresses, saves further processing work).

On Sun, 30 Jan 2022 at 10:30, Kim Oldfield via Talk-au <
talk-au at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there any advantage to tagging addresses with the state when the
> state is already well defined in OSM and the state for a given address
> location can be obtained from existing map data?
>
> I'm not criticising Justin's work - improved consistency is good. I'm
> asking the open ended question: is there a better way of recording this
> data that avoids duplication?
>
> Regards,
> Kim
>
> On 29/1/22 23:56, tabjsina 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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