[Talk-us-massachusetts] Talk-us-massachusetts Digest, Vol 41, Issue 5

[Greg Troxel]

Yury Yatsynovich <yury.yatsynovich at gmail.com> writes:

> I was adding addr:county tags to help me process towns when importing
> addresses from MassGIS: I thought that there might be towns with same names
> in different counties, so to avoid errors I was using County&Town
> identifier. If there are any other ways to uniquely identify towns in MA,
> I'm OK about deleting addr:county.

As I understand it, actual town names are unique.  Even pseudotowns like
hyannis I believe are also unique.   place names that are not towns,
maybe not so much.