Jan 3, 2023, 13:38 by [email protected]: > > > On Tue, 3 Jan 2023 at 11:56, Sarah Hoffmann <> [email protected]> > wrote: > >> I strongly recommend that you describe the exact changes you want to do >> before you do any further uploads to the database. The public database >> is not a playground for yo to toy around with until you get it right. >> >> On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 10:58:30AM +0200, Dāvis Kļaviņš wrote: >> > On Tue, 3 Jan 2023 at 10:19, Sarah Hoffmann <>> [email protected]>> > >> wrote: >> > >> > > Unfortunately, you have now broken the addresses which do not have a >> > > street. These are the ones were you need addr:place. >> > > >> > >> > When you point to such a fact, I was able to find at Key:addr:place >> > <>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:place>> > that "it is >> okay to >> > have both addr:place=* and addr:city=* with the same value on the same >> > object". Will fix it. At the same time, there is nothing written about it >> > at Key:addr:city <>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:city>> >> >, >> > although there should be. >> >> addr:place and addr:city may appear together when they refer to >> different places which both would appear in the postal address. Do not >> duplicate them when they refer to the same place or datausers will >> interpret the address wrong. >> > > Then why does the wiki state that "it is okay to have both addr:place=* and > addr:city=* > with the same value on the same object> "? It's rather > impossible to do things right when wiki says one thing, but some other user > says the opposite. > It is entirely normal to discover during such discussion that OSM Wiki had confusing/ badly worded/misleading descriptions. Sometimes updating or extending OSM Wiki documentation takes large part of such effort (it happened to me few times when I was adding new functionality). Self-contradictory description at OSM Wiki is one of reasons why discussing very large edits before doing them is a good idea. And yes, https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:place would benefit from clarifying what is claimed there.
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