[OSM-talk] Without an address, an Icelandic tourist drew this map of the intended location (Búðardalur) and surroundings on the envelope. The postal service delivered!

Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Wed Aug 31 08:11:52 UTC 2016



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> Il giorno 31 ago 2016, alle ore 09:39, Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch> ha scritto:
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> But this approach is not scalable, - even on this map you can see three Rua C, four Rua A (Rua means Street in Portuguese).


first it wouldn't harm to get a tiny bit more creative when choosing the street names and second this is where post codes come into play 


> Without a central authority it will end up in numerous duplicates.


there is a central authority in Brazil, there are very few places without any kind of central authority 


cheers,
Martin 
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