[Talk-ca] Cleanup of addr:country, addr:province, addr:state

[john whelan]

So you're suggesting adding short_name='ON' to ones that have
addr:province=Ontario

How would that work?

addr:province=Ontario
addr:province:short_name=ON ?

Merci John

On 10 March 2018 at 15:27, Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> John, on doit essayer d'être plus intuitif et permettre les deux façons de
> rechercher. Cela peut se faire simplement en ajoutant dans la relation
> province d'Ontario, short_name='ON'.
>
> Pour revenir aux suggestions de Matthew, de façon à impliquer / motiver
> les communautés locales, ce serait d'offrir les outils et listes d'objets à
> corriger un peu comme le fait Osmose et autres outils de QA.
>
>
> Pierre
>
>
> Le samedi 10 mars 2018 13:53:35 HNE, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>
> a écrit :
>
>
> For Ontario I would suggest following the post office guidelines for
> province and using ON rather than a mixture of ON and Ontario.  That way it
> makes it easier to find an address since you just need to search for ON.
> Currently you would need to search for both variations.
>
> Cheerio John
>
> On 8 Mar 2018 11:28 pm, "Matthew Darwin" <matthew at mdarwin.ca> wrote:
>
>
> So I've tidied up the addr:province/state tags, now using only
> addr:province, leaving anything that would be generally considered
> "correct" either spelt out in full or using English provincial abbreviation
> as you might use in a mailing address. Also left "Quebec" (no accent).
> I would rather like to clean this up further, however, I have stopped just
> at tidying up things that were mis-spelt or had inconsistent case.
>
> Is there any view on where to go next?
>
> These are the current counts:
>
> 69008           Nova Scotia
> 39668           ON
> 33280           British Columbia
>  7788           Alberta
>  6584           AB
>  4771           BC
>  4520           Québec
>  3772           Ontario
>  2791           QC
>  2140           NB
>  1744           SK
>  1285           NU
>  1066           NL
>  1022           Manitoba
>   879           New Brunswick
>   527           Quebec
>   307           PE
>   234           NS
>   222           MB
>   163           Saskatchewan
>    23           Nunavut
>    14           NT
>    11           YT
>     9           Yukon
>     3           Northwest Territories
>
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