[Talk-GB] addr:place cleanup process

[Cj Malone]

For some mass fixing of addr:place, I agree, and will be happy to help
if other agree.

As for addr:suburb, I've been using the addr:village and addr:town, but
I can understand the issues raised about it. I'll be happy to follow
the consensus on this, once it's agreed.

Not advocating this for OSM, but as an aside, in an unrelated dataset I
completely gave up on structured addresses. I simply use streetAddress,
locality, region, postcode, country as freeform text fields. (I pretty
sure I copied the idea from another spec I came across)

streetAddress holds all the complexity, it can be as as simple as
"housenumber roadname", or packed with unit housename, multiple roads,
places, whatever. It can't really be parsed by a machine, but is great
to display to end users. locality are basically region line 2 and 3 on
a letter, it's not enforced to be actual admin levels.

Cj