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Dagboek van mtmail

Geplaatst door mtmail op 31 juli 2025 in het English.

The Nominatim QA tool added a new layer “Suspicious addr:state value”

If addr:state is the same addr:province. Depending on country addr:province might not be needed
If addr:state is the same as the country code
if addr:state is the same as the country name (in any language)

The layer is updated every day.

Give it a go. But not USA and Canada because I was too eager and made many edits today already.

Thanks for fixing those in Canada. I could say something about becoming the 51st state, but who needs that xxx

I could say something about interoperability, but who needs that.

The validation might need a couple of exceptions:

Algeria and Argentina don’t seem to have consensus if addr:province or addr:state should be used in address tags. Both countries’ name their subdivisions province (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_Algeria , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_Argentina).