[Talk-GB] addr:place cleanup process

[Rob Nickerson]

Hi Tony,

I think you are getting mixed up here. I suspect it is due to the so-called
"Duck Tagging" test [1]. Just to reiterate the points from earlier in the
address discussion, the settlement names in addr:hamlet, addr:village,
addr:town and addr:city are wrong and should be ignored. The original tag
(addr:city) should be used regardless of whether it is a town or city. As
in, this would have been addr:postal_town if the address schema originated
in the UK rather than in Germany.

The addr:hamlet, addr:village, addr:town exist mainly because people have
misunderstood this point above.

If you have an address which has some settlement name before the postal
town then there are only ever two tags that you need: addr:suburb and
addr:city. The case we haven't yet worked out how to handle is when the
address includes 3 settlements / settlement sub areas ("locality elements"
in RM language). At that point we use addr:suburb for the smallest,
addr:city for the largest and an as yet undefined tag for the middle.

So "suburb" in addr:suburb should also not be interpreted based on our view
of what a suburb is or isn't.

I hope this helps.

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Duck_tagging

Thanks,
*Rob*
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