<div dir="ltr"><div>It could be used in places with no real street names like Mongolia, which uses What3Words to find buildings, but that's another topic for another day.</div><div><br></div><div>Canada and US usually always have a civic number (street number) and a street name. They should be encoded as such.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 9:26 AM, Paul Norman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:penorman@mac.com" target="_blank">penorman@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 1/3/2018 5:24 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote:<br>
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<pre>I wouldn't let addr:full be a
show stopper. addr:full is a perfectly valid tag in its own right.
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<pre>addr:full was not really intended to play the role of a container of raw
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Quoting the wiki, it's for use "if you find the structured address
fields unsuitable for denoting the address of this particular
location." This is rare in the US, where most places have
conventional house numbers, streets, etc. As a general rule, don't
use it in the US or Canada.<br>
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