[Talk-GB] addr:place cleanup process

[Simon Poole]

Am 15.01.2022 um 16:32 schrieb David Woolley:
> On 15/01/2022 14:49, Colin Smale wrote:
>> Are you now suggesting that we let go of that premise, and allow tags 
>> to have arbitrary names (sequence numbers? UUIDs?), on the grounds 
>> that the UI can always fix it up for the user?
>
> Most of the world doesn't have UK English as their first language, so 
> they have to do that anyway. 

Exactly. Highway classifications being the most notable example (that 
I've already mentioned numerous times)  for which  the rest of the world 
has to use UK tag values that don't really fit anywhere else. But the 
address tag situation is not remotely as bad as that, they are just a 
set of loosely hierarchical named fields that are used to model 
addresses, and they could just as well be named addr:1, addr:2, addr:3 
and so on.

Simon

> In any case, some tag names in OSM aren't correct UK English, e.g 
> whilst footway has basically the same meaning as the US English 
> sidewalk, it has a broader meaning in OSM, and OSM has tags using the 
> US English, sidewalk, rather using footway, in its correct UK sense.
>
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