[talk-au] Consistent addr:state format?

[tabjsina]

As a follow-up, here it is - https://maproulette.org/browse/challenges/24307

Seems like there is a limit to how many get loaded at a time, so the 
initial batch is NSW and NT only, but more should load up after the set 
is cleared

Thanks all - let me know if you have any concerns or suggestions

On 29/1/2022 8:56 pm, 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