[Talk-us] US Addressing

[Steven Johnson]

Okay, so we're talking about importing address *points*. Good.

Now, are we talking strictly about *postal* addresses? Or *site* addresses?
In some cases (cities, typically) they're typically the same. But in rural
areas not always the case.

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On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Mike N <niceman at att.net> wrote:

>
>  We certainly need to take our time before importing addresses.  I
> considered the problem of manually collecting the city and concluded that
> it is not possible short of opening mailboxes and reading the address on
> any mail (highly illegal), or knocking on every door to confirm the mailing
> address.   Much like boundaries, complete address information is possible
> only with an import.
>
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