i believe "city of" is redundant as its a classification vs a name.
Would we say "village of maniwaki"? nope. On Feb 12, 2018 5:51 PM, "Matthew Darwin" <matt...@mdarwin.ca> wrote: > Hi, > > I am now reviewing the *addr**:city* tag. Seems we are not very > consistent how we use it. For example, Toronto: > > 110707 City of Toronto > 9603 Toronto > 4 North York, Toronto > 2 Toronto, ON > 2 toronto > 1 York, Toronto > 1 Torontoitalian > 1 Toronto;City of Toronto > 1 Toronto > > Which is correct? "*City of **Toronto*" or "*Toronto*"? I would think > "Toronto"??? Why do people pick one over the other? > > There are more than 7000 unique names in Canada. Below are the top 50. > Ottawa is not on the top of the list because there was a local decision to > not include the addr:city tag during address addition as there there are > many different "city" names since almagamation. (The official Canada Post > address still has the old municipality name prior to amalgamation while the > City of Ottawa works through de-duplicating street names). > > 110707 City of Toronto > 100066 Gatineau > 82606 Montréal > 79191 Surrey > 71932 Edmonton > 51096 Québec > 45716 City of Hamilton > 37232 Mississauga > 35763 Laval > 32029 Dartmouth > 30969 Kamloops > 27234 City of London > 25393 City of Brampton > 22881 Municipality of Chatham-Kent > 18534 Saguenay > 17921 Lévis > 17251 City of Vaughan > 16929 City of St. Catharines > 16796 Town of Markham > 16592 City of Kawartha Lakes > 16403 Trois-Rivières > 16086 City of Thunder Bay > 15788 Oakville > 15335 Sherbrooke > 14787 City of Niagara Falls > 14338 Norfolk County > 13966 City of Kingston > 13939 Fredericton > 12085 City of Oshawa > 11966 Saanich > 11950 Calgary > 11382 Terrebonne > 11332 Richmond Hill > 11321 City of Barrie > 11080 Town of Fort Erie > 10986 Cole Harbour > 10981 City of Burlington > 10641 Town of Whitby > 10635 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu > 10455 Drummondville > 10347 City of Guelph > 9906 Municipality of Clarington > 9666 City of Brantford > 9603 Toronto > 9487 Shawinigan > 9384 City of Sarnia > 9380 Red Deer > 9102 City of Windsor > 9044 City Of Sault Ste. Marie > 8466 Sudbury > > > -- > Matthew Darwinmatthew@mdarwin.cahttp://www.mdarwin.ca > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > >
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