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<div>There is at least one town in the USA, Carmel, California
(sometimes called "Carmel-by-the-Sea" as there is also a
Carmel Valley which is a half-hour drive from Carmel inland).
Carmel does not use addresses<i> per se</i> using house numbers.
I have no idea how the Post Office does things -- it really must be
quite annoying to them, but they evidently manage somehow.</div>
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<div>At least in the business district, you'll hear a description of
where a business is located as something like: "On Dolores
between Fifth and Sixth." That's how I've heard it on at
least one radio ad.</div>
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<div>Clearly, in Carmel (and perhaps Council Hill, Oklahoma?), we'll
need to leave the addr:housenumber out of OSM's data entirely, as
there really is no such thing. Some houses may have or be
reasonably well-known with what fits into OSM as an addr:housename,
and indeed there may even be a scheme (same one used by the Post
Office?) which does something similar to what the radio ads do for
businesses. For example, a particular residential house in
Carmel might be assigned as an address node tag:</div>
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<div>addr:housename=Casanova Street, East side, third house south of
9th</div>
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<div>I'm whole-cloth inventing this as an example, and again, it would
be good to know what the Post Office does. (Or even 911, if it
is discernable, as that might be more definitive as it seems more
local). But the main reason I share this knowledge is to
demonstrate that there is at least one place in the USA that has no
numbered addresses as we commonly experience them.</div>
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<div>SteveA</div>
<div>California</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>This and many other annoying addressing
schemes used to be common, but<br>
I thought the enhanced 911 system did away with this sort of thing.
I<br>
did a quick google search and I can't find any address for that
school<br>
though.<br>
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On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Paul Johnson
<baloo@ursamundi.org> wrote:<br>
> A PO Box doesn't work for navigation purposes, which is what I
thought we<br>
> were focusing on. Oddly enough, the school does have a
mailbox on Third<br>
> near Pine. House numbers don't appear to be a thing in
Council Hill, I<br>
> didn't see anything there (though I was pushing a deadline and
running<br>
> behind, hence only focusing on Midway Schools, so I might have
missed it;<br>
> the schools were definitely was unnumbered).<br>
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