<HTML><BODY>Hi Friedrich.<br><br>I can't say for whole World,<br>as for Russia we have plots of lands having addresses without buildings.<br><br>They are not always dedicated to be build up with something.<br>There is three ways, (maybe more, but i don't know for sure):<br><br>1. Large landuses as landuse=industrial may have their own address, like.<br><br>Springfield, Green Road, 123.<br>and every building inside this territory have their own address like:<br>Springfield, Green Road, 123, building 2.<br><br>(Keep in mind that we traditionally have different addresses parts order).<br><br>2,3. Rather small land lots with demolished or not yet constructed buildings.<br>We can say that they are dedicated to be built up with something in future,<br>but they may appears empty for ages.<br><br>It's rather common situation for rural areas, when owner have purchased land lot,<br>but haven't built capital house yet. <br>But these lots should have addresses for mail correspondence <a class="l-article__showExamp js-show-examples" title="Показать примеры употребления" href="http://www.lingvo-online.ru/ru/Search/Translate/GlossaryItemExtraInfo?text=%d0%ba%d0%b0%d0%bf%d0%b8%d1%82%d0%b0%d0%bb%d1%8c%d0%bd%d1%8b%d0%b9&translation=capital&srcLang=ru&destLang=en" data-mce-href="http://www.lingvo-online.ru/ru/Search/Translate/GlossaryItemExtraInfo?text=%d0%ba%d0%b0%d0%bf%d0%b8%d1%82%d0%b0%d0%bb%d1%8c%d0%bd%d1%8b%d0%b9&translation=capital&srcLang=ru&destLang=en"><span class="translation"></span></a>and fees.<br><br><br>Wed, 21 Jan 2015 21:02:14 -0600 от "John F. Eldredge" <john@jfeldredge.com>:<br>
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<div id="style_14218958690000000389_BODY">On 01/19/2015 03:39 AM, Friedrich Volkmann wrote:<br>
> On 18.01.2015 22:23, Markus Lindholm wrote:<br>
>> I think that comes down to how addresses are viewed, either as a<br>
>> proper feature in their one right or as an attribute to some other<br>
>> feature.<br>
><br>
> Yes, that's the crux.<br>
><br>
>> I think addresses are proper features, so a distinct address<br>
>> should be found only once in the database.<br>
><br>
> And I see it the other way. Addresses are just attributes. It may pendend on<br>
> the country, I don't know. In Austria and most certainly in entire central<br>
> Europe, an address is always bound to a building, apartment or strictly<br>
> delimited plot of land. An address cannot exist on its own. Every address<br>
> includes a housenumber, indicating that there's a house. There are no<br>
> addresses in the midst of a lake or somewhere in the cliffs.<br>
><br>
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If you have a "strictly delimited plot of land", with no house currently <br>
built upon it, but which is intended for later construction, does it <br>
have a house number? Or is the address only assigned once a building is <br>
built?<br>
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