<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 1 May 2019 at 00:46, Martin Koppenhoefer <<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
> On 30. Apr 2019, at 15:03, Colin Smale <<a href="mailto:colin.smale@xs4all.nl" target="_blank">colin.smale@xs4all.nl</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Beware also the quest for the universal solution. Postal addressing, administrative segmentation and people's affinities are separate dimensions. Any attempt to force them into a single model is doomed to failure, so why try?<br>
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exactly, we do have entities for all of these: addr tags for postal addressing, administrative boundaries for administrative structures and place for sociocultural places, and I’ve always been a defendant of this distinction, but it cannot be denied that a lot of mappers add place tags for settlements to administrative entities, thereby extending the settlement on the whole administrative territory.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Another personal example of "towns" being very spread out.</div><div><br></div><div>When I was a kid, my Auntie & Uncle ran a sheep station ("ranch") in Western Queensland. They were ~40 km out of town (Blackall), but their postal address was Avondale, Blackall & their phone number was Blackall 104K (does anybody overseas even know about manual party lines? - & for that matter, does anybody else in Australia remember them? :-))</div><div><br></div><div>This is where Avondale is in regard to Blackall (towards top left if it doesn't highlight) <a href="http://www.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&p=247883&op=1589&cmd=sp&c=1&x=145%2E09446&y=-24%2E23379&w=40000&mpsec=0">http://www.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&p=247883&op=1589&cmd=sp&c=1&x=145%2E09446&y=-24%2E23379&w=40000&mpsec=0</a> , & they were not the furtherest place out of Blackall by any means!</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks<div><br></div><div>Graeme</div></div></div></div>