[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Tagging for complex junctions or traffic signals that are named

[Jean-Marc Liotier]

On 08/25/2014 11:09 PM, Lukas Sommer wrote:
> In Ivory Coast, you have addresses like “in front of the XYZ 
> crossroad” or “from XYZ crossroad 50 m towards the big fueling 
> station”. Rather a sort of instructions for getting somewhere than an 
> address in the european sense. Obviously “from XYZ crossroad 50 m 
> towards the big fueling station” will be applied to various houses 
> (usually, when you have arrived, you make a phone call to the person 
> that you want to meet, and the person comes to the road to search you 
> and help you with the last part of the way – I can guarantee you that 
> this is very time-consuming ;-)

That said, people in quite a few African countries have a postal address 
(PO box in most cases) distinct from the address of their residence, so 
the problem of shoehorning directions in the standard address fields of 
European-designed software is side-stepped more often than not.