De : "BJ Freeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-100 > I include the XAL from http://www.oasis-open.org > it is used by google map interface. > They take a different approach to addressing, as far as naming goes. > any consideration of adopting their nomenclature? > > for instance > street = Thoroughfare
Actually, if I have well understood (I'm french) a Thoroughfare is something more general and can be also a square, a boulevard, an avenue, an impasse (these 4 words are also used in french ;o), etc. > City = Locality Same idea, more general... > DependentLocality (like suburbs name or districts in a city The one from where mail is distributed I guess > State/province =AdministrativeArea Typically new world > country is still the same two letter ID. > > as mentioned in another email > there is an > AddressType > CurrentStatus(of address) > > Some of the above can be handled in the ContactMech. > some in the Geo and Geotype > > Not sure how to present a proposal for changes to the PostalAddress entity This look a bit like how UK deals with its address, except for AdministrativeArea which come certainly from US or Canada. Is there a direction field ? This is used in places where there are no names or numbers for streets. In France there are still some cases like that (I discovered it, really surprising). Actually it's even worse. For instance I live at "Chemin de la Mouline" (this is in countryside). There are 8 houses there but none has a number. I claim for one since I'm here (5 years). Numbers can be indexed or metrics they told me (from which origin ? Beginning of the street I guess)... nothing yet. So as long as the old postman works it's ok (barely, depends of days), but when he is in vacation : not so easy for his substitute (moreover they always change, of course). Some are smarter, EDF (Electricité de France, nuclear zealots) which is mainly interested by pickin up your counter and charge you added a direction in their invoices. I'm just at their 3d pole after the right turn. No kidding, it's how it's written to help their employee. Actually this is South of France and we are not so far from Africa... Funny isn'it ? There is a Jira issue for that https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-961. IIRW direction is in the address entity but there are no UI for it yet. Jacques PS: Hey BJ, I always dreamed to live in a camping-car (not my wife) but a motorcoach seems to be the real answer. AFAIK this does not exist in Europe yet. US style : much bigger, tough camping-cars tend to be bigger and bigger too. 2 worries also : petrol price and CO², actually they are really imbricated. Futur will tell... Sorry for this deflection guys, I just can't resist. Have a good week
