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On 25/04/2011 15:20, Brad Neuhauser wrote:
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cite="mid:BANLkTi=oGP5ce+6N5yAiGQ38CEvos3eKPw@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">In the US, this is usually generically called a
"unit"--for a full list of USPS "secondary units":
<div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.usps.com/ncsc/lookups/usps_abbreviations.html#secunitdesig">http://www.usps.com/ncsc/lookups/usps_abbreviations.html#secunitdesig</a> You
can see Suite is one of these, along with Apartment and many
others.</div>
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<div>This page collects info about worldwide mail systems, at
least Canada and Australia seem to have unit designations
similar to the US: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bitboost.com/ref/international-address-formats.html">http://www.bitboost.com/ref/international-address-formats.html</a></div>
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<div>Royal Mail does have a way to search for flat number, but
didn't see anything more than that on their website. <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://postcode.royalmail.com/portal/rm/postcodefinder?pageId=pcaf_pc_search&postcodeSearchType=detailed&catId=28400668">http://postcode.royalmail.com/portal/rm/postcodefinder?pageId=pcaf_pc_search&postcodeSearchType=detailed&catId=28400668</a> Guess
this leaves us with Richard's question: is there a different
British term?</div>
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<div>Brad</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:57 AM,
Richard Welty <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div class="im">On 4/25/11 9:44 AM, Josh Doe wrote:<br>
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I was just thinking about this myself. We have lots of
strip malls<br>
around here, where a particular strip will have the same
address<br>
number, but is divided into a number of "suites". Some
of these suites<br>
are combined to contain one business, but the business
will only use<br>
one of the suite identifiers for their address. In one
strip you'll<br>
see "9570-A", "9570-B", "9570-F" depending on the size
of the<br>
businesses. I've just been putting this in
addr:housenumber.<br>
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i have been putting it into housenumber too, to a degree,
but it's not<br>
really natural.<br>
<br>
and the suite model is very, very common, anytime you are
looking<br>
at a shared building, whether it's office space, industrial
space, or<br>
retail space.<br>
<br>
my concern here is purely making sure the tag name is well
chosen.<br>
given that OSM tends to lean towards british usage, i'd like
to know<br>
what that is.
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Personally, I'd put this is addr:full. <br>
<br>
I suspect that there are too many local variants to handle. When
I've rented offices in places where multiple offices shared
premises, the Royal Mail just expect the business name & the
postal address. Of course you can put lots of other stuff (Flat 12,
Top Floor office, ...) but the post office doesn't in general care
because these will all share a delivery point. Post is usually
sorted out internally.<br>
<br>
In Zurich when I rented an apartment this was more significant as
the delivery point was an individual post box inside the building
& the postie had a key to the building. In this case the
building had apartments on the top floor, but business suites on
other floors, (and an up-market knocking shop in the basement, which
had a separate entrance).<br>
<br>
The most extreme case that I'm aware of is Spain: it's not uncommon
for addresses to consist of a building which will have a street
address, followed by a floor number and a door (often just left
& right). This is common enough to be asked for in
questionnaires and online address forms. As many small companies
I've visited are often located in residential buildings, addresses
for business suites and residential apartments are often identical
in form.<br>
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So I'd tend to keep the standard addr:* tags for stuff which more
closely relates to a postal address: and put the non-standard stuff
in the addr:full tag. The key issue is really what use cases can you
envisage. The main one I can think of is actually finding the
entrance when visiting the premises.<br>
<br>
Jerry<br>
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