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

[Warin]

+ 1 for the name without state, country. Those can be found by the 
enclosing features, there is no need to add tags 'is_in'.


Careful with populations.. they might be for the town and not the area.. 
would need checking?


On 21/9/22 22:03, Nev wrote:
> Thanks Alex,
> that’s very helpful to me.
> Nev
>
>
>> On 21 Sep 2022, at 9:55 pm, Alex Sims <alex at softgrow.com> wrote:
>>
>> 
>>
>> 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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