[talk-au] Place name as name=Scarborough, Queensland, Australia

[Alex Sims]

Hi,

In general abbreviations and commas are avoided in tagging OpenStreetMap wide, so no don’t add a comma but add an appropriate tag.

The Australian  tagging guidelines https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines/Land_and_boundaries don’t have an example using a node as a label, but the suburb of Cremorne, NSW does, https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5655122

So in the case of Scarborough, the relation https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11677688 should have the node https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/268549421 added as a “label”. This will then show up as the “centre” of Scarborough.

The node https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/268549421 should have the name changed back to just “Scarborough” and the population tags moved to the relation.

Alex

From: Nev W <nevwosm2 at gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2022 at 8:22 pm
To: talk OSM Australian List <Talk-au at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: [talk-au] Place name as name=Scarborough, Queensland, Australia
Hi
I have noticed that place names are altered to add the state, or country, city in OSM.
Here is an example https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/268549421/history
I have tried correcting what I see as incorrect tagging.
But on reflection, is it ok to define the place with the addition of a comma and further definition?
Is there something on the wiki to point these mappers to that clarifies this?

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dsuburb
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