[Talk-ca] Formatting of Municipality Names

Matthew Darwin matthew at mdarwin.ca
Mon Feb 12 23:09:32 UTC 2018


On 2018-02-12 06:05 PM, Stewart Russell wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2018 17:51, "Matthew Darwin" <matthew at mdarwin.ca 
> <mailto:matthew at mdarwin.ca>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I am now reviewing the *addr**:city* tag. Seems we are not very
>     consistent how we use it. For example, Toronto:
>
>      110707 City of Toronto    9603 Toronto
>
>
> With my minimalist mapping hat on (it's invisible), if a 
> municipality has a boundary defined, we absolutely don't need 
> addr:city (or province or country) in address points.
>

This is the same logic of why the addr:city=Ottawa tags are few and 
far between.

I'm happy to have the discussion about removing redundant tags.
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