I want to bump up this thread to see what other opinions are out
there. If you are supportive to remove the addr:province and
addr:country tags in Canada, please speak up. I don't like making big
changes with only 1 comment. (If you like, feel free to reply
privately to me avoid bombarding the list with "me too" and I will
summarize the replies on the list). Prior to starting this
discussion, I too have been removing these tags when I come across
them (a few places in London, ON had country=US???)
Alternately my proposal would be to:
* change addr:state => addr:province
* add ~2.7 million missing addr:province / addr:country where they
don't exist
* an then then to standardize what we are putting into those
fields. eg for addr:province in Ontario: ON, on, Ontario,
ONTARIO, Ont, ont, or the several other variations that exist
today. ("ON" is most popular, followed by "Ontario")
If you don't like either of the above, I would really like to hear why
having the tags in some places but not others is a good thing. As you
may have noticed based on my posts over the last few weeks that I like
to have things (more) consistent, unless there is a (good) reason not
to be consistent.
On 2018-02-16 12:52 PM, Alan Richards wrote:
I typically remove these tags when I come across them, as yes, I've
heard the same argument that they're redundant.
I like all this cleanup you've been doing with phone numbers,
addresses, etc. Kudos!
On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 9:40 AM, Matthew Darwin <matt...@mdarwin.ca
<mailto:matt...@mdarwin.ca>> wrote:
Hi all,
During the discussion of cleaning up municipality names in
Canada, it was suggested that the addr:city could be removed
entirely if the appropriate boundaries are defined. I would
hazard to guess (and will endeavour to investigate) that the
addr:city and the boundaries do not always align in Canada
(there are ~11300 administrative boundaries of some type and
there are ~7000 unique addr:city tags)... so this will be a much
more long term effort.
However, the provincial/territorial boundaries are defined, so
removing the addr:country, addr:provice and addr:state tags
might be a more reasonable at this time. (addr:country is used
~94% less than addr:street)
Tags, by number of occurrences:
167902 addr:country
33252 addr:state
179741 addr:province
2950115 addr:city
2942159 addr:street
2934341 addr:housenumber
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