Hi Folks,
The main reason I have used capitals in the state is because of Address Presentation Standards with Australia Post https://auspost.com.au/content/dam/auspost_corp/media/documents/australia-post-addressing-standards-1999.pdf Having said that, I don’t use capitals for suburbs! Cheers - Phil From: Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, 30 January 2022 10:10 AM To: tabjsina <sinatabr...@gmail.com> Cc: OSM-Au <talk-au@openstreetmap.org> Subject: Re: [talk-au] Consistent addr:state format? G'day Justin & welcome! Asking any question that you've got is quite definitely the best way of doing things - thanks! I agree fully about the acronyms rather than spelling the name in full, with the exception that I personally use Qld rather than QLD. If I was down there, I'd probably also use Tas, but all capitals for the others. I don't think there's any hard & fast rules for capitalisation though? Thanks Graeme On Sun, 30 Jan 2022 at 00:32, tabjsina <sinatabr...@gmail.com <mailto:sinatabr...@gmail.com> > wrote: Hello, I'm new to this mailing list (and mailing lists in general), apologies if I'm doing it wrong :) I've recently made a maproulette challenge which asked users to confirm updating any populating addr:state value in Western Australia to "WA", if it was something else. Previously, about 90% were already "WA", 9% were a variation like "Western Australia", "wa" (lowercase), and the remaining were something completely wrong, like "AU" or a suburb/city name. Now that WA is all fixed, I was looking at other states, and noticed that, while most states also had a similar 90% rate of using acronym, NSW and moreso VIC had a closer split between the acronym and the full name. Before I go ahead with setting up this maproulette challenge for the rest of the country, I wanted to get some thoughts on whether it makes sense to standardize around using acronyms (WA, ACT, NSW, NT, QLD, VIC, SA, TAS), full name (Western Australia, Australian Capital Territory, etc), or whether we should not be trying to standardise this value at all. Thanks, Justin _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org <mailto:Talk-au@openstreetmap.org> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
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