<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature">sent from a phone</div><div><br>On 12. Aug 2018, at 01:40, Simon Poole <<a href="mailto:simon@poole.ch">simon@poole.ch</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>People seem to be looking more for unique ids for their dwellings
than something that is dependent on a relatively fine grained
location/coordinate value, of which you may have multiple for one
house. We know this works, it is still a very common system in
alpine regions in Europe.</div></blockquote><br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>It depends a lot on the details and setting, in Venice, to give an example with a dense urban setting, building entrances are numbered with 4digits, unique within their “sestiere” (literally not quarter but sixth), and it doesn’t work well for finding a place (unless you use a map which has all the numbers). For a quick impression:</div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/45.44062/12.34087">https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/45.44062/12.34087</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Martin</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>