<div dir="ltr">This article made me think of this thread.... <a href="http://www.domain.com.au/news/letter-with-map-instead-of-address-still-gets-delivered-in-iceland-20160905-gr90u1/">http://www.domain.com.au/news/letter-with-map-instead-of-address-still-gets-delivered-in-iceland-20160905-gr90u1/</a><div><br></div><div>Pete</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Rory McCann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rory@technomancy.org" target="_blank">rory@technomancy.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 31/08/16 13:37, john whelan wrote:<br>
> ​There has been considerable talk about addressing schemes for areas<br>
> that do not have street names etc.  Three words etc.<br>
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</span>Y'know you don't have to go as far as Africa to find countries with<br>
address "systems" like that. I give you: Ireland. In rural areas (many)<br>
streets have no names, and many houses have no numbers, using house<br>
names instead. Lowest level administrative areas (townlands) are often<br>
used (but not always accurately) to construct an address.<br>
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About 30% of rural addresses are non-unique. i.e. The postman has to<br>
know things from the surname on the letter.<br>
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A new postcode system has been released recently, which gives every<br>
letter box a unique & random code. But it'll be years before that's used<br>
a lot.<br>
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Alas, Ireland's drink monoculture means Ivan's beer address system<br>
probably wouldn't work. :)<br>
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<a href="http://www.dataireland.ie/News/Pages/Tricky-Irish-Addresses-Why-do-Irish-addresses-pose-so-many-problems" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.dataireland.ie/<wbr>News/Pages/Tricky-Irish-<wbr>Addresses-Why-do-Irish-<wbr>addresses-pose-so-many-<wbr>problems</a><br>
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