Re: [talk-au] State names

On 25/6/18 08:42, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: Just looking at addresses I've loaded without "is_in", & they all seem to show as Whatever Address, without a Suburb / Town, but with "Enclosing Features" - State Boundary: Queensland? See: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2016-August/0

Re: [talk-au] State names

On Sun, 24 Jun 2018 at 18:42, Michael Collinson wrote: > Randomly looking at Queensland as place=state, I see that ref=QLD is > already set as well as short_name, so there is a link that can be used in > computational processing. > Thanks for that confirmation Mike - QLD works for me! > And thin

Re: [talk-au] State names

I assume we are specifically talking about addr:state ? If so the connotation is on the state as part of a postal address rather than as a place per se. Therefore I suggest using capitalised abbreviation and that the document Warin quotes is

Re: [talk-au] State names

On 24/06/18 16:20, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: G'day The latest (?) upgrade to iD reformatted the address fields to suit Oz addresses & also introduced a State field to be entered. Question & policy decision needed here please :-) Queensland / Qld / QLD? How should we be entering our State na

[talk-au] State names

G'day The latest (?) upgrade to iD reformatted the address fields to suit Oz addresses & also introduced a State field to be entered. Question & policy decision needed here please :-) Queensland / Qld / QLD? How should we be entering our State names? Thanks Graeme