[talk-au] Consistent addr:state format?

[Phil Wyatt]

Thanks Folks,

 

For me its also about correcting invalid information that is currently in OSM. I have found cases where the suburb has been entered as a city, the city as a suburb, the state as a province, AU as the state etc. I suspect there may be an app or two that may not place the attributes in the correct fields (I will check this later on)

 

I would certainly be happy NOT to have both city and suburb (where there are legitimate answers to both) as I suspect that can be very confusing especially if displayed in apps etc for tourists. 

 

Cheers - Phil

 

 

 

From: Andrew Harvey <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com> 
Sent: Monday, 31 January 2022 1:16 PM
To: Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
Cc: OSM-Au <talk-au at openstreetmap.org>; tabjsina <sinatabrizi at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [talk-au] Consistent addr:state format?

 

 

 

On Mon, 31 Jan 2022 at 09:43, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com <mailto:graemefitz1 at gmail.com> > wrote:

 

& to clarify, we only need to include the street address for anything, & not the suburb / town / city?

 

Assuming the suburb / locality boundaries have been mapped (which they should not be Australia wide from an import), then data consumers can infer the rest of the attributes. Check out Nominatim, https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/details.html?osmtype=N <https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/details.html?osmtype=N&osmid=6496603926&class=place> &osmid=6496603926&class=place it shows the inherited attributes like suburb, postcode, state.

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