On 27 May 2015 at 08:07, Colin Smale <[email protected]> wrote: > Martin et al., > > It might help to have some kind of paradigm here as I think our frames of > reference may be divergent. If we don't have consensus about the "question" > we will never agree about the "answer" except by coincidence, and that > would be the worst situation of all. > > What are the use cases for an "address"? Is it as a routing target? A > "label" or "annotation" for a building? or a "property" in a looser sense? > Is it for the benefit of the postman? Or what? > > //colin > > > In the UK we have postal addresses and geographic addresses. In the main they're the same but where there isn't a postal address, there's only the geographic address. There are cases where the postal address and geographic address are different - such as PO Box numbers where a firm at one address has their post delivered to another address.
Address: geographic/routing (A description for finding a 'place' - a (geographic) location; the next 8 bits, a web page etc. Address: postal post delivery. -- Mike. @millomweb <https://sites.google.com/site/millomweb/index/introduction> - For all your info on Millom and South Copeland via *the area's premier website - * *currently unavailable due to ongoing harassment of me, my family, property & pets* T&Cs <https://sites.google.com/site/pmailkeey/e-mail>
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