I typically remove these tags when I come across them, as yes, I've heard the same argument that they're redundant.
I like all this cleanup you've been doing with phone numbers, addresses, etc. Kudos! On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 9:40 AM, Matthew Darwin <matt...@mdarwin.ca> wrote: > Hi all, > > During the discussion of cleaning up municipality names in Canada, it was > suggested that the addr:city could be removed entirely if the appropriate > boundaries are defined. I would hazard to guess (and will endeavour to > investigate) that the addr:city and the boundaries do not always align in > Canada (there are ~11300 administrative boundaries of some type and there > are ~7000 unique addr:city tags)... so this will be a much more long term > effort. > > However, the provincial/territorial boundaries are defined, so removing > the addr:country, addr:provice and addr:state tags might be a more > reasonable at this time. (addr:country is used ~94% less than addr:street) > > Tags, by number of occurrences: > > 167902 addr:country > > 33252 addr:state > > 179741 addr:province > > 2950115 addr:city > > 2942159 addr:street > > 2934341 addr:housenumber > > > -- > Matthew Darwinmatthew@mdarwin.cahttp://www.mdarwin.ca > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > >
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