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

[Ed Avis]

M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist <at> gmail.com> writes:

>>Let's tag the information that is needed, but not restate the same thing in
>>several different ways.  Then if some different presentation of that info is
>>needed, this can be done in a separate post-processing step by a computer, not
>>by people.
> 
>You seem to imply that relations are faster / less manual work
>requiring when entering addresses manually with one of the OSM
>editors, but from my own experience they require at least the same
>(manual) work, if not more.

Sorry if I wasn't clear, I was not talking about the use of relations, but rather
the idea of tagging separate addr:county, addr:region etc on every individual
object that has an address.  (Perhaps that wasn't what the question was about,
in which case I apologize.)

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Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>