[Tagging] Reviewing the use of addr:housename

[Matthijs Melissen]

On 15 June 2014 19:22, Peter Wendorff <wendorff at uni-paderborn.de> wrote:
> What is the address in your opinion?

That is of course not black and white. But I do think house names have
a different status in the UK than they have in Germany. In Germany,
you would normally not include the house name when writing a letter.
In the UK, that is common practice: Electronic systems usually only
ask for postal code and house number, and then expand this to the full
address, including house name.

> - If it is what the post office uses - then in Germany the city name is
> not a required part of the address as far as I know as it's included in
> the postcode.

The German post office recommends including the city name: see
https://www.deutschepost.de/de/b/briefumschlag-richtig-beschriften.html
.

-- Matthijs