Hi. I think in Australia, as far as gazetted places go, suburb=town, but for these, you can derive it if the suburb has an admin boundary.
City is not gazetted. E.g. Sydney is a suburb. An address in nearby Pyrmont is not in Sydney (the suburb), so saying it is in a city called Sydney might be confusing. - Ben Kelley. On 19 Jan 2014 14:01, "Stéphane Guillou" <stephane.guil...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > >
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