There has been considerable talk about addressing schemes for areas that do not have street names etc. Three words etc.
In many parts of the western we use things called postcodes, certainly in Canada and the UK. In Canada a letter addressed to a house number with a postcode will get delivered. A house number only occurs once within a postcode. Postcodes have great value for statistical information. Clusters of illnesses etc. So this is infrastructure work that the NGOs can build on. An address scheme based on postcodes and house numbers can be expanded later to include street and village names which gives some redundancy in the address. The Canadian Government is into Open Data and currently works with a number of African countries. I would suggest tapping their expertise with postcodes and to start with one African country to see if we can draw up postcodes on the OSM map. For those areas that have had buildings mapped the local “Post Office” could be involved in assigning house numbers. Note to Kent just an idle thought that might get picked up. I bcced you to save publishing your email address to the world. Cheerio John
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