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

[Dave Hansen]

On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 11:40 -0800, Apollinaris Schoell wrote:
> On 12 Nov 2009, at 11:29 , Anthony wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com>  
> > wrote:
> >> It's a fairly well established convention that in OSM it's the
> >> houses/plots, not the road centrelines, that are addressed.
> >
> > 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. 

So, should we ignore the US for addressing entirely since it is
different?  Or, should US addressing use a different scheme than the
rest of the world?  We like being different.

-- Dave