Is there a need for the addr:full tag in Estonian addresses? It looks like it has been used in imports but its use has been slowly decreasing:
While in most cases it is just redundant, there are several examples where it is incorrect, since it is not automatically maintained when addresses change:
My proposal is to remove this tag from way elements where the address has been recently verified. Here is the overpass query:
[out:json];
{{geocodeArea:Estonia}}->.searchArea;(
way["addr:full"]["source:addr"="Maa- ja Ruumiamet 2025"](area.searchArea);
way["addr:full"]["source:addr"="Maa- ja Ruumiamet 2026"](area.searchArea);
);
out geom;
This means removing addr:full tag from ~10k elements. I briefly looked into tag values as well, didn’t find any examples where they contained any useful information besides lähiaadress.
Unless there are any objections, I plan to remove it next week on 08.03.2026.
Looks good. All examples provided originate from the 2009’s Tartu building import. The chronology features a noticeable jump in autumn 2011 as well which may need investigating. It is safe to assume that by 2019 almost all buildings had received properly formatted addresses.
Museums may need special attention. There are 37 or 38 instances of museum nodes or ways (Kihnu’s addr:housename=Muuseumi looks off) that are missing the usual address tagging. Plus Realiseerimiskeskus in Tartu. Overpass query
Additionally, I added this tag to the list of tags that can be deleted by my ADS update script that runs every month.
For example, I fixed geometry for this building: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/26898418
In the next ADS update, missing postcode should trigger ADS upgrade that will also remove the addr:full tag.