On 25/04/2011 15:20, Brad Neuhauser wrote:
In the US, this is usually generically called a "unit"--for a full
list of USPS "secondary units":
http://www.usps.com/ncsc/lookups/usps_abbreviations.html#secunitdesig You
can see Suite is one of these, along with Apartment and many others.
This page collects info about worldwide mail systems, at least Canada
and Australia seem to have unit designations similar to the US:
http://www.bitboost.com/ref/international-address-formats.html
Royal Mail does have a way to search for flat number, but didn't see
anything more than that on their website.
http://postcode.royalmail.com/portal/rm/postcodefinder?pageId=pcaf_pc_search&postcodeSearchType=detailed&catId=28400668
<http://postcode.royalmail.com/portal/rm/postcodefinder?pageId=pcaf_pc_search&postcodeSearchType=detailed&catId=28400668> Guess
this leaves us with Richard's question: is there a different British term?
Brad
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Richard Welty <[email protected]
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On 4/25/11 9:44 AM, Josh Doe wrote:
I was just thinking about this myself. We have lots of strip malls
around here, where a particular strip will have the same address
number, but is divided into a number of "suites". Some of
these suites
are combined to contain one business, but the business will
only use
one of the suite identifiers for their address. In one strip
you'll
see "9570-A", "9570-B", "9570-F" depending on the size of the
businesses. I've just been putting this in addr:housenumber.
i have been putting it into housenumber too, to a degree, but it's not
really natural.
and the suite model is very, very common, anytime you are looking
at a shared building, whether it's office space, industrial space, or
retail space.
my concern here is purely making sure the tag name is well chosen.
given that OSM tends to lean towards british usage, i'd like to know
what that is.
richard
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Personally, I'd put this is addr:full.
I suspect that there are too many local variants to handle. When I've
rented offices in places where multiple offices shared premises, the
Royal Mail just expect the business name & the postal address. Of course
you can put lots of other stuff (Flat 12, Top Floor office, ...) but the
post office doesn't in general care because these will all share a
delivery point. Post is usually sorted out internally.
In Zurich when I rented an apartment this was more significant as the
delivery point was an individual post box inside the building & the
postie had a key to the building. In this case the building had
apartments on the top floor, but business suites on other floors, (and
an up-market knocking shop in the basement, which had a separate entrance).
The most extreme case that I'm aware of is Spain: it's not uncommon for
addresses to consist of a building which will have a street address,
followed by a floor number and a door (often just left & right). This is
common enough to be asked for in questionnaires and online address
forms. As many small companies I've visited are often located in
residential buildings, addresses for business suites and residential
apartments are often identical in form.
So I'd tend to keep the standard addr:* tags for stuff which more
closely relates to a postal address: and put the non-standard stuff in
the addr:full tag. The key issue is really what use cases can you
envisage. The main one I can think of is actually finding the entrance
when visiting the premises.
Jerry
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