On 08/25/2014 11:09 PM, Lukas Sommer wrote:
In Ivory Coast, you have addresses like “in front of the XYZ crossroad” or “from XYZ crossroad 50 m towards the big fueling station”. Rather a sort of instructions for getting somewhere than an address in the european sense. Obviously “from XYZ crossroad 50 m towards the big fueling station” will be applied to various houses (usually, when you have arrived, you make a phone call to the person that you want to meet, and the person comes to the road to search you and help you with the last part of the way – I can guarantee you that this is very time-consuming ;-)
That said, people in quite a few African countries have a postal address (PO box in most cases) distinct from the address of their residence, so the problem of shoehorning directions in the standard address fields of European-designed software is side-stepped more often than not.
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