[Tagging] housenumber on node and area

[John Eldredge]

Also, large industrial facilities may have all mail delivered to a central 
office, yet have separate street addresses for individual buildings for 
delivering goods.



On May 28, 2015 9:21:44 AM "Colin Smale" <colin.smale at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> In the UK we have postal addresses which are for Royal Mail's convenience,
> not yours. Often your (correct) postal address suggests you are in a
> different town, and sometimes even a different country.
>
> What would you call the geographic address for NP16 7JU? The postal
> address is Chepstow. It's not even in Wales.
>
> > On 27 May 2015 at 08:07, Colin Smale <colin.smale at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> >
> >>  Martin et al.,
> >>
> >> It might help to have some kind of paradigm here as I think our frames
> >> of
> >> reference may be divergent. If we don't have consensus about the
> >> "question"
> >> we will never agree about the "answer" except by coincidence, and that
> >> would be the worst situation of all.
> >>
> >> What are the use cases for an "address"? Is it as a routing target? A
> >> "label" or "annotation" for a building? or a "property" in a looser
> >> sense?
> >> Is it for the benefit of the postman? Or what?
> >>
> >> //colin
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > In the UK we have postal addresses and geographic addresses. In the main
> > they're the same but where there isn't a postal address, there's only the
> > geographic address. There are cases where the postal address and
> > geographic
> > address are different - such as PO Box numbers where a firm at one address
> > has their post delivered to another address.
> >
> > Address: geographic/routing (A description for finding a 'place' - a
> > (geographic) location; the next 8 bits, a web page etc.
> > Address: postal post delivery.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mike.
> > @millomweb <https://sites.google.com/site/millomweb/index/introduction> -
> > For all your info on Millom and South Copeland
> > via *the area's premier website - *
> >
> > *currently unavailable due to ongoing harassment of me, my family,
> > property
> > & pets*
> >
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