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

[Anthony]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:43 PM, andrzej zaborowski <balrogg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Every single country has different addressing rules, it's not like
> this particular scheme is special.  That's why someone came up with a
> tagging scheme that can express all or most of these rules

They did?  What scheme is that?

My understanding of the history of the Karlsruhe Schema is that a
bunch of people got together in Karlsruhe and came up with something
that worked for them, explicitly stating that other people should
develop something that works for them.

> If we're going to have special tagging for US then let's have it for
> every country and let's split into many projects and just give up on
> this whole silly idea of having a single map.

Is there a reason you're ignoring the fact that potential addressing
is used in many places outside the US?