As far as routing engines go, my guess is City=Town=Suburb, they would dump them all into one box and sort.
But I confess I don't see them as interchangeable in other contexts. Difficult question Nicholas ! David On Mon, 2014-10-13 at 23:54 +0000, Nicholas G Lawrence wrote: > When I use the in-browser editor iD, and create a building outline to tag, it > offers up addr:city as a tag, but not addr:suburb > > Of course, I can add a new tag addr:suburb easily enough, but it is a couple > more steps. > > So the path of least resistance is to populate the tag addr:city and leave > blank addr:suburb > > Personally, I am leaning towards addr:city = Coorparoo as it fits the > convention of addressing letters as you point out. > > But I'd like to adhere to the established convention in Australia. > > Cheers, > Nick > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Bannon [mailto:dban...@internode.on.net] > Sent: Tuesday, 14 October 2014 9:21 AM > To: Nicholas G Lawrence > Cc: talk-au@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [talk-au] street addressing city or suburb? > > > Nicholas, generally, when addressing an envelope for example, we'd say - > > somestreet, > Coorparoo, > Queensland, postcode > > We'd reserve the use of "Brisbane" to an address in the CBD itself. Or so I > think... > > Apply the same principle here do you think ? > > David > > On Mon, 2014-10-13 at 23:09 +0000, Nicholas G Lawrence wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > What is the convention for tagging an address for a residential > > property in a suburb (Coorparoo) in a city (Brisbane)? > > > > > > > > addr:city = “Brisbane” > > > > > > > > Or > > > > > > > > addr:city = “Coorparoo” > > > > > > > > Or > > > > > > > > addr:suburb = “Coorparoo” > > > > > > > > Which is best for navigation and routing? > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > Nick Lawrence > > Senior Spatial Science Officer (Geospatial Technologies) Engineering & > > Technology | Department of Transport and Main Roads > > > > > > > > Floor 19 | 313 Adelaide Street | Brisbane Qld 4000 GPO Box 1412 | > > Brisbane Qld 4001 > > P:(07) 30667977 > > E: nicholas.g.lawre...@tmr.qld.gov.au > > W: www.tmr.qld.gov.au > > > > > > > > > > ********************************************************************** > > * > > WARNING: This email (including any attachments) may contain legally > > privileged, confidential or private information and may be protected > > by copyright. You may only use it if you are the person(s) it was > > intended to be sent to and if you use it in an authorised way. No one > > is allowed to use, review, alter, transmit, disclose, distribute, > > print or copy this email without appropriate authority. > > > > If this email was not intended for you and was sent to you by mistake, > > please telephone or email me immediately, destroy any hardcopies of > > this email and delete it and any copies of it from your computer > > system. Any right which the sender may have under copyright law, and > > any legal privilege and confidentiality attached to this email is not > > waived or destroyed by that mistake. > > > > > > It is your responsibility to ensure that this email does not contain > > and is not affected by computer viruses, defects or interference by > > third parties or replication problems (including incompatibility with > > your computer system). > > > > Opinions contained in this email do not necessarily reflect the > > opinions of the Department of Transport and Main Roads, or endorsed > > organisations utilising the same infrastructure. > > ********************************************************************** > > * > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
