On 21 March 2012 20:22, Pieren wrote:
> And your example about "from where the Cinema was before" is a bit a
> problem if we don't see any evidence on the ground (like old signs but
> afain we don't have tags yet for that).
This is exactly the kind of problem we have with neighbourhoods as
disc
On 03/21/2012 07:06 AM, Steve Bennett wrote:
> I seem to recall having read either the articles Felix posted, or
> similar ones. The point is, in some countries, these informal
> descriptions actually *are* genuine addresses. There's no other
> addressing system in place, so over time they become t
On 3/21/2012 9:06 AM, Steve Bennett wrote:
The harder question is if you want to try and define actual addresses,
like actually putting a unique address description on each dwelling
("From the church, 400m south", "From the church, 380m south with the
blue door"). But maybe leave that harder ques
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
> I ask because this sort of description is used everywhere. One might say "at
> the end of the road, past Sand Lake Elementary School" rather than "8249
> Buena Vista Woods Boulevard", but that doesn't make the former any kind of
> real add
On 3/20/2012 6:52 PM, Felix Delattre wrote:
In Central America describing addresses work differently than in
northern countries. As there are often times no street names and people
are used to describe the addresses with reference points. Only in some
residential areas they use letter and numbers
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Felix Delattre wrote:
> My request is that I would like to start a discussion about
> the the tags "landmark" [1] and "reference_point" [2].
No idea about "reference_point" but a new "landmark" category is not a
good one since we can already use the existing "man
