Hi all, just to put some more entropy in the discussion I add this nice and open reverse geocode addressing: http://xaddress.org/
Hope not getting too much off topic. Alessandro Fanna Il 10/set/2016 12:46, "Pete Masters" <[email protected]> ha scritto: > > This article made me think of this thread.... http://www.domain.com.au/news/letter-with-map-instead-of-address-still-gets-delivered-in-iceland-20160905-gr90u1/ > > Pete > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Rory McCann <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 31/08/16 13:37, john whelan wrote: >> > There has been considerable talk about addressing schemes for areas >> > that do not have street names etc. Three words etc. >> >> Y'know you don't have to go as far as Africa to find countries with >> address "systems" like that. I give you: Ireland. In rural areas (many) >> streets have no names, and many houses have no numbers, using house >> names instead. Lowest level administrative areas (townlands) are often >> used (but not always accurately) to construct an address. >> >> About 30% of rural addresses are non-unique. i.e. The postman has to >> know things from the surname on the letter. >> >> A new postcode system has been released recently, which gives every >> letter box a unique & random code. But it'll be years before that's used >> a lot. >> >> Alas, Ireland's drink monoculture means Ivan's beer address system >> probably wouldn't work. :) >> >> Read more: >> >> * https://www.autoaddress.ie/products/irish-addressing >> * >> http://www.dataireland.ie/News/Pages/Tricky-Irish-Addresses-Why-do-Irish-addresses-pose-so-many-problems >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> > > > > -- > Pete Masters > Missing Maps Project Coordinator > +44 7921 781 518 > > missingmaps.org > > @pedrito1414 > @theMissingMaps > facebook.com/MissingMapsProject > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >
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