Hi,
I've been populating addr:city with the thing in Australia we call the
suburb. This seems to be supported by the definition on the wiki as this
seems to say that the addr:* keys defines a postal address.
I've been playing around with mkgmap to Garmin and whatever happens, the
more addresses the better. I've been playing with Osmhunter, an IOS app
which makes it fun, although a bit slow.
Alex
On 14/10/2014 11:10 AM, Ben Kelley wrote:
Hi.
In OSM (for Australia), suburb=town, which is admin_level=9 for admin
boundaries. We don't define the boundary of the wider metropolitan area.
To be honest I'm not sure of the value in adding this to addresses.
The location of the address (within admin boundaries) will determine
this, along with any street related to the address.
That is, it's probably better to let routing software infer the town,
rather than re-enter it for every address.
- Ben Kelley.
--
Ben Kelley
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On 14 Oct 2014 11:19, "David Bannon" <dban...@internode.on.net
<mailto:dban...@internode.on.net>> wrote:
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
<mailto:dban...@internode.on.net>]
> Sent: Tuesday, 14 October 2014 9:21 AM
> To: Nicholas G Lawrence
> Cc: talk-au@openstreetmap.org <mailto: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?
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