Thanks everyone for your input.
I wonder what was the rationale behind using abbreviations for countries
and states as I understood that the database must be as human-readable
as possible.
Still, I will be following the recommendations on the Key:addr page for
addr:country=AU.
However, I am still unsure about suburb vs city. Key:addr tells us to
watch out for the Australian definition of suburbs, and Wikipedia says
the following:
"In Australia and New Zealand, suburbs have become formalised as
geographic subdivisions of a city and are used by postal services in
*addressing*."
As we are here tagging the address, I was wondering: are we tagging so
the addresses appear as they should when we use them (e.g. when we write
them on an envelope) - the original point of tagging an address I guess
- (in which case I would just go with addr:city=The Gap), or should we
understand the tags as literally as possible (in that case, I would go
addr:city=Brisbane and addr:suburb=The Gap).
What would be the best way to decide on a convention so we can add
guidelines for OSM-AU?
Cheers
Stéphane (chtfn)
On 19/01/14 11:04, Ross Scanlon wrote:
I'd suggest you check this page
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr
You'll see that the addr:country is supposed to be:
"The ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 two letter country code in upper case."
We are talking addresses not is_in.
Also addr:state can be either but it tends to be the abbreviation.
Cheers
Ross
On 19/01/14 09:42, cleary wrote:
I prefer
state=Queensland
state_code=QLD
country=Australia
country_code=AU
which I understand is consistent with
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:is_in
While there is scope for abbreviations in certain special identified
categories, the norm remains that names written in full. It seems to me
that the "state", "state_code", "country" and "country_code" tags make
adequate provision for both.
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