[OSM-talk] iD news - v2.6.0 lots of new features...

[Tom Hughes]

I wouldn't say unit is common at all in the UK to be honest.

It's only really used for commercial units on industrial estates and 
things - you wouldn't normally see it in residential addresses like you 
do in many countries.

Tom

On 22/01/18 21:24, Bryan Housel wrote:
> Yes this is an interesting issue.. A lot of people were pretty upset 
> when the `addr:unit` field started appearing in their address field.
> 
> Field was added here: https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/pull/4235
> At the time it seemed pretty harmless.
> (I locked discussion on that issue because it was getting too noisy - we 
> really don’t need to discuss how address work in all parts of the world)
> 
> I mostly take a pretty hands-off approach to this field - I’d like for 
> people to be able to map addresses however they want to in their 
> country, and I don’t spend a lot of time tracking down what addresses 
> look like around the world, so we rely on local contributors to update 
> the source code with pull requests.
> 
> I think there are several things going on here:
> 
> 1. Some places really don’t have a concept of `addr:unit` - there are 
> just no addresses split up by floor, apartment, etc.
>     (The best thing to do is to remove the field)
> 
> 2. Some places do have this concept, but they don’t call it `unit`, so 
> seeing the word “unit” in the UI is confusing
>     (The best thing to do is probably rename the field, maybe 
> “Apt/Floor/Unit” or something else?)
> 
> 3. Some places do have this concept, but it is so rare that people don’t 
> want to see it in the UI
>     (The best thing to do is - whatever local mappers want.  Still, 
> “rare” does not mean “useless".)
> 
> 4. Some places do not have a dedicated address format, so they see the 
> “default” format which looks kind of European and had `addr:unit` added 
> to it recently
>     (I removed the field from the “default” format, since opinions on 
> this field are so mixed)
> 
> 
> Thanks, Bryan
> 
> 
> 
>> On Jan 22, 2018, at 12:55 PM, Steve Doerr <doerr.stephen at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:doerr.stephen at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> From the change log:
>> 'remove addr:unit field for gb, ie, si, tr'.
>>
>> I wonder why (re gb). Unit is quite a common element in UK addresses, 
>> isn't it?
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> I hope everyone takes a look at the changelog.
>>>
>>
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