[Talk-GB] addr:place cleanup process

[Cj Malone]

On Sat, 2022-02-12 at 22:18 +0000, Rob Nickerson wrote:
> Well said. And indeed the use of addr:place is continuing to fall ->
> down
> to 29,412 cases now. Hard to say for sure, but nominatim QA indicates
> [1]
> that at least 15,000 of these are incorrect uses. Add that to the
> already
> fixed cases (47,000) then we see that of the original 76,479 cases of
> addr:place in the UK over 80% were incorrect!

I'd love to see some graphs when this is done.

> JOSM's preset dialogue seems to be a particular issue. The way it
> positions
> addr:place between street and city leads people to think this is
> something
> like a suburb. I have therefore opened a ticket [2] to request this
> be
> changed.

JOSM is also gives a warning that you have to click through when you go
to upload an object with addr:place and addr:street. It's done this for
as long as I can remember, and is actually the reason I knew it was bad
data, not the wiki.

I don't think addr:place is a preset in iD, but does anybody know if
it'll give a similar warning?

Sorry I haven't really helped with this, I should get some time this
evening to do some.

Cj