[OSM-talk] Representing places with no housenumber

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Fri Aug 24 23:47:53 UTC 2018


On 24/08/18 18:40, Rory McCann wrote:
> On 22/08/18 23:40, Christoph Hormann wrote:
>> On Wednesday 22 August 2018, Rory McCann wrote:
>>>> The single most important property of an address is that it is
>>>> unique
>>>
>>> 35% of addresses in Ireland aren't unique.
>>
>> I strongly suspect we have a different understanding of either 'address'
>> or 'uniqueness' here.
>
> Possibly. The Irish definition is "a property has the same address with
> a least one other property". I'm not talking about 2 postboxes that are
> beside each other in an apartment block, but 2 houses which could be a
> distance apart. Post/Packages is delivered partially based on surname,
> or "local knowledge" 😉. It is/was a pain. The new postcode ("eircode")
> will help. Now, you may say the surname is part of the address, but what
> happens when someone moves house? 

The 'names' I refer to are the 'names' of the property, not the name of 
the resident/s.






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