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

[Nev W]

Yes, I decided that ‘is_in’ tag is not needed here and population looks good for this suburb with source and fits in with census data.
Nev 

> On 22 Sep 2022, at 6:29 pm, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> + 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? 
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> 
> 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> <mailto: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 <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 <https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5655122>
>>>  
>>> So in the case of Scarborough, the relation https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11677688 <https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11677688> should have the nodehttps://www.openstreetmap.org/node/268549421 <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 <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> <mailto:nevwosm2 at gmail.com>
>>> Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2022 at 8:22 pm
>>> To: talk OSM Australian List <Talk-au at openstreetmap.org> <mailto: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 <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 <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dsuburb>
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