Thanks Andrew. A considered and thoughtful response. I support your proposed actions. Your work for OSM is always very good and much appreciated.
On Tue, 8 Jun 2021, at 2:59 PM, Andrew Harvey via Talk-au wrote: > To sum up the contentious issue of suburb, postcode, state tags, > > - Phil, Daniel and Seb would prefer the suburb and postcode on each > address object. > - Andrew Davidson and cleary would prefer we not include suburb and > postcode on each address object and instead require data consumers to > derive this data from the existing boundaries, and actively discourage > mappers manually adding this data via removing the preset in ID. > > Thinking further I'd support including the full address details on each > address object, to provide a complete address, even if duplicated by > the boundary. QA tools could be built to validate these match the admin > boundaries and it becomes a maintenance task to maintain these tags, > but I think that's okay. > > However, to avoid stalling this import on this issue (it doesn't sound > like anyone will change their mind soon), I'll plan the minimum viable > option of excluding addr:suburb, addr:postcode and addr:state from the > import. > > There's nothing stopping a further discussion of a planned automated > edit to update address objects with suburb, postcode and state if the > community changes their mind later on. > > I'll make these changes to the import code, then once I've completed > all the documentation and remaining issues hopefully post some import > candidate files if anyone would like to review. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
