It looks like Qld makes up ~3700 address states and QLD is at 15000
("Queensland" is ~1000 as a comparison).
I'm thinking I'll make an adjustment in the Queensland code to skip
cases that are "Qld", but otherwise (For complete errors, and
"Queensland" cases), I'll recommend the more popular format "QLD". Since
you live there Graeme, how does this plan sound?
Tasmania is already consistently TAS throughout (with the exception of
exactly 3 errors where someone put the street name in that field)
Victoria similarly has <500 cases of Vic versus 45k VIC and 35k
Victoria, so I will also just move those few Vic's towards the more
standard VIC.
-Justin
On 30/1/2022 7:30 am, Phil Wyatt wrote:
> 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
> <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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