On Wed, 1 May 2019 at 00:46, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 30. Apr 2019, at 15:03, Colin Smale <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Beware also the quest for the universal solution. Postal addressing, > administrative segmentation and people's affinities are separate > dimensions. Any attempt to force them into a single model is doomed to > failure, so why try? > > > exactly, we do have entities for all of these: addr tags for postal > addressing, administrative boundaries for administrative structures and > place for sociocultural places, and I’ve always been a defendant of this > distinction, but it cannot be denied that a lot of mappers add place tags > for settlements to administrative entities, thereby extending the > settlement on the whole administrative territory. > Another personal example of "towns" being very spread out. When I was a kid, my Auntie & Uncle ran a sheep station ("ranch") in Western Queensland. They were ~40 km out of town (Blackall), but their postal address was Avondale, Blackall & their phone number was Blackall 104K (does anybody overseas even know about manual party lines? - & for that matter, does anybody else in Australia remember them? :-)) This is where Avondale is in regard to Blackall (towards top left if it doesn't highlight) http://www.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&p=247883&op=1589&cmd=sp&c=1&x=145%2E09446&y=-24%2E23379&w=40000&mpsec=0 , & they were not the furtherest place out of Blackall by any means! Thanks Graeme
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