[OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

[Jaak Laineste]

Hello,

 It looks like trivial suggestion, but could not find any past
discussions with quick search.

 Is there good reason to add addr:country, addr:county, addr:city and
other regional tags to all the address tags, if OSM database already
has administrative regions for given area? These admin areas already
create implicit relation, which can be used in any application to add
city,country,district,state and other regions. So buildings would have
only addr:street, addr:housenumber (and possibly house:housename and
addr:full tags). Depending on country, addr:postcode could be
geographical also.

-- 
Jaak