On 19/01/2014 8:48 PM, Ben Kelley wrote:
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.
Perhaps better to deal with it as a county/shire issue? As we are
british based then this may be of some assistance?
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/English_Counties
This should separate any two suburbs of the same name (I hope!).
Unfortunately these are not in common use here (unlike britain) so may
not be helpful for general navigation.
As for the post office - I'd think they use the post code first rather
than the city/suburb. I'd think the OS Map is for navigation, not for
the post office? So it should make sense in a navigational way?
On 19 Jan 2014 14:01, "Stéphane Guillou" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> 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)
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