On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 12:06, Jarek PiĆ³rkowski <ja...@piorkowski.ca> wrote:

>
> In Ontario we don't always map city and province in cases where that
> can be easily computed from other OSM data. Province is outright
> discouraged. When the administrative boundaries of municipalities and
> regions/states/provinces are fully mapped in OSM, requiring them also
> on every address node seems a bit pedantic


On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 12:33, Andrew Harvey <andrew.harv...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree, it's pedantic to add the suburb and state since these can easily
> be derived from the admin boundaries
>

Guess that makes me pedantic then! :-)


> That said, it can still be useful to tag the suburb on the address node,
> especially for properties near the border of two suburbs as the node might
> end up falling on the other side of the admin boundary
>

Yep, this is something I've often seen in OSMAND, which stubbornly tells me
that this street doesn't exist, despite it being in OSM :-(

OK then, I won't worry too much about it (but will still "fix" them when I
spot them! :-))

  Thanks

Graeme
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