[Tagging] housenumber on node and area

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2015-05-28 12:12 GMT+02:00 Colin Smale <colin.smale at xs4all.nl>:

> If you have a block of flats with 2000 people apparently living at the
> same address, I can't imagine that a single, shared letter box will be
> enough. Each apartment will have its own address.
>
> Or are you talking about where each apartment has its own private letter
> box in the entrance hall?
>


yes. the latter. They all have the same address, but they all have their
own individual letter box. There are many many cases like this. You (the
mail service) don't need a distinct address for each property (=apartment /
unit).



> Which would bring us back to "what's an address?" Is it for delivering
> letters, or is it about the property itself?
>


it is all of this.

Cheers,
Martin
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