My experiences in Kenya are: For individual areas the postcode is mostly unknown. If you want to receive a letter you have to rent a PO Box at a post office (which then also may serve as your 'address') which has a postcodes
Postcodes are (mainly) useful for post offices (in Kenya). House numbering is vastly inconsistent, and 'non linear'. On 31 August 2016 at 20:08, john whelan <[email protected]> wrote: > Basically Longitude and Latitude? Transpose two numbers and its easily done > and you have no address. Having some redundancy in the address is helpful. > > Cheerio John > > On 31 August 2016 at 15:00, yo paseopor <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> What about a geo referenced and scalable system like...coordinates? Postal >> codes are based on inventaries of provinces,states,cities,streets... Ok, >> when you don't have anything like this of the inventary is not correct or >> not well implemented what about something will never fail? (coordinates) >> >> yopaseopor >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > -- Best Regards, Christian Ledermann Newark-on-Trent - UK Mobile : +44 7474997517 https://uk.linkedin.com/in/christianledermann https://github.com/cleder/ <*)))>{ If you save the living environment, the biodiversity that we have left, you will also automatically save the physical environment, too. But If you only save the physical environment, you will ultimately lose both. 1) Don’t drive species to extinction 2) Don’t destroy a habitat that species rely on. 3) Don’t change the climate in ways that will result in the above. }<(((*> _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
