[OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Addressing Question

Liz edodd at billiau.net
Thu Nov 12 19:46:32 GMT 2009


On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Apollinaris Schoell wrote:
> > But that doesn't always reflect reality.  The reality, at least in
> > many parts of the world, is that the streets are given blocks of
> > potential addresses, and the houses/plots/whatever are given actual
> > addresses from those potential address blocks.
>
> Don't know any place except in US where this has been done.
The rural numbering scheme used in Australia is an excellent example, as the 
potential number of addresses is the length of the road in km * 100, and there 
is no expectation that any number of the addresses will be used.






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