[Talk-us] Feature proposal: proposed expanded address tagging scheme for US

[Richard Welty]

On 11/21/12 4:16 PM, Steven Johnson wrote:
> Second, Richard, please see Carl's post which talks about the proposal from
> the standpoint of emergency services. Carl could likely say what the pros &
> cons are of splitting the tags vs loading everything in the addr:street tag.
>
i did read Carl's post. it's good on the philosophical issue, but i'm 
interested
in realistic use cases.

what specific problems in emergency response are addressed by this?
problems in the 911 call center? problems in dispatch? problems in the
actual response on the street?

what real world processes are broken now that are fixed/improved by this 
change?

richard