I wouldn't say unit is common at all in the UK to be honest.
It's only really used for commercial units on industrial estates and
things - you wouldn't normally see it in residential addresses like you
do in many countries.
Tom
On 22/01/18 21:24, Bryan Housel wrote:
Yes this is an interesting issue.. A lot of people were pretty upset
when the `addr:unit` field started appearing in their address field.
Field was added here: https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/pull/4235
At the time it seemed pretty harmless.
(I locked discussion on that issue because it was getting too noisy - we
really don’t need to discuss how address work in all parts of the world)
I mostly take a pretty hands-off approach to this field - I’d like for
people to be able to map addresses however they want to in their
country, and I don’t spend a lot of time tracking down what addresses
look like around the world, so we rely on local contributors to update
the source code with pull requests.
I think there are several things going on here:
1. Some places really don’t have a concept of `addr:unit` - there are
just no addresses split up by floor, apartment, etc.
(The best thing to do is to remove the field)
2. Some places do have this concept, but they don’t call it `unit`, so
seeing the word “unit” in the UI is confusing
(The best thing to do is probably rename the field, maybe
“Apt/Floor/Unit” or something else?)
3. Some places do have this concept, but it is so rare that people don’t
want to see it in the UI
(The best thing to do is - whatever local mappers want. Still,
“rare” does not mean “useless".)
4. Some places do not have a dedicated address format, so they see the
“default” format which looks kind of European and had `addr:unit` added
to it recently
(I removed the field from the “default” format, since opinions on
this field are so mixed)
Thanks, Bryan
On Jan 22, 2018, at 12:55 PM, Steve Doerr <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
From the change log:
'remove addr:unit field for gb, ie, si, tr'.
I wonder why (re gb). Unit is quite a common element in UK addresses,
isn't it?
Steve
Sent from my iPhone
I hope everyone takes a look at the changelog.
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