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FWIW, Google and Bing don’t understand it either!
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<div class="">Friends of ours have an address of the format:</div>
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<div class="">1 Cherry Cottages</div>
<div class="">Lime Avenue</div>
<div class="">Cranleigh</div>
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<div class="">(not a real address, although the town is real enough!)</div>
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<div class="">Bing gave me the equivalent of 1 Lime Avenue, which was at least in the right town, while Google gave me 1 Cherry Cottages (or thereabouts) but in a town over an hour away!</div>
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<div class="">Cheers</div>
<div class="">Stuart</div>
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<div class="">On 29 May 2015, at 15:26, Colin Smale <<a href="mailto:colin.smale@xs4all.nl" class="">colin.smale@xs4all.nl</a>> wrote:</div>
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<p class="">If anyone is interested in the data model used by Royal Mail in UK addresses, this will tell you loads:</p>
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<p class="">Warning: you may find yourself uttering things in "rather unparliamentary language" when you read this.</p>
<p class="">Contrast this with the Dutch address model: Street, Housenumber (numeric), Housenumber Extension (alphanumeric), Postcode (9999XX) and Town. Probably much the same in Belgium and Germany too.</p>
<p class="">//colin</p>
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