Thinking more on this, and using my experience in the foursquare superuser editing community, trying to have a single "state" type entity is really quite hard to scale globally. Political boundaries and administrative levels vary all over the world, and trying to establish a single name for a smaller political unit than the country is really challenging. State? Province? Municipality? There are many names for what a US State is (if you can really compare it out), and so to use addr:state does seem fairly USA focused.
Before the state showed up in iD, I had assumed someone could just easily derive the US state from the postal code. Perhaps the tag should be addr:us_state? Kindly, Elliott On Thu Nov 06 2014 at 4:24:14 PM Clifford Snow <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Shawn K. Quinn <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> In the case of US state and Canadian province abbreviations, there is a >> 1:1 correspondence with no ambiguity. Elsewhere this may or may not be >> the case. That said, using the USPS abbreviations in the US makes the >> most sense to me, as that is the format most of us who mail things with >> any regularity are used to writing and seeing addresses in. I realize >> it's an exception to the "don't abbreviate" rule but it does make some >> sense at least to me. >> > > +1 > > > > -- > @osm_seattle > osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us > OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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