If the world is complicated it may be necessary to reflect that in the data model (or alternatively make the data model so general that complications are pushed to applications). I think the Royal Mail approach to addresses is already too Procrustean!
However, there is a British Standard for addresses, which I'm told by those who know it well provides a high degree of flexibility for the numerous cases which do not reflect housenumber, supplement, street, place model. Jerry On 29 May 2015 at 15:26, Colin Smale <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > If anyone is interested in the data model used by Royal Mail in UK > addresses, this will tell you loads: > > > http://www.poweredbypaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Latest-Programmers_guide_Edition-7-Version-6.pdf > > Warning: you may find yourself uttering things in "rather unparliamentary > language" when you read this. > > Contrast this with the Dutch address model: Street, Housenumber (numeric), > Housenumber Extension (alphanumeric), Postcode (9999XX) and Town. Probably > much the same in Belgium and Germany too. > > //colin > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > >
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