[Talk-in] What are the Guidelines for mapping address information in India?

[sreeram kandimalla]

Remembered seeing this on twitter sometime back -
https://twitter.com/BALVIND81553704/status/1281525399688798209?t=sSPfGGGbQZHWobGNFGZVHA&s=19

India address problems..

On Fri, 16 Sep, 2022, 9:36 pm Arun Ganesh, <arun.planemad at gmail.com> wrote:

> We should also accept that there's going to be some limitations with
> capturing addresses properly in India. My address while living in the
> village was of the format:
>
> Mrs ABC, w/o late XYZ  [w/o= wife of]
> Village,
> District,
> State Pincode
>
> It will be quite the day when there is a geocoder capable of searching for
> such addresses :)
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 11:53 AM Arun Ganesh <arun.planemad at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> This is what i would propose based on
>> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=addr
>>
>> addr:housename=Vikram Building CHS Ltd (Name of the Building)
>> addr:neighbourhood=Bali Bajar (Sub Locality in Indian parlance)
>> addr:suburb=Kurla W (Locality in Indian parlance)
>>
>> Landmarks are an interesting concept since its very subjective. Different
>> people might use different landmarks for the exact same address. While its
>> totally ok to invent a separate addr:landmark field to have this, not
>> feeling very convinced it would be practically useful for a geocoder for
>> searching. Its probably more useful while printing out the address so it
>> can be used on the ground and for that having it in addr:full seems
>> sufficient.
>>
>>
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