Hamilton address open data import

Hello,

I don’t have experience doing an import, so I can’t comment, but hopefully others can.

I do have experience working with address data in OSM, so I will comment on this:

IMO, addr:city=Hamilton is not needed. Hamilton has a well-defined border in OSM (Relation: ‪Hamilton‬ (‪7034910‬) | OpenStreetMap) that OSM tools can use to figure out the city (e.g. in Nominatim: https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?lat=43.265048&lon=-79.947751&zoom=19). Same with province.

What could be beneficial is including the community (Dundas, Stoney Creek, etc) in addr:suburb tag. I see it in the open data as the COMMUNITY field. In OSM we have nodes for them (e.g. Node: ‪Dundas‬ (‪249641649‬) | OpenStreetMap), but not areas. It looks like there are some duplicate street addresses within Hamilton (e.g. Node: ‪1 King Street East‬ (‪9405898132‬) | OpenStreetMap and Node: ‪1 King Street East‬ (‪907786134‬) | OpenStreetMap) so having the disambiguating addr:suburb would help.

The postal codes would be extremely useful. Please do include them whenever you can. The six-character postal codes are generally not freely available in Canada (Canada Post wants you to buy them), so if Hamilton is making them available under an open license (and I do see them in the open data preview), it would be fantastic to include them into OSM.

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