On 2015-05-28 12:24, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> 2015-05-28 12:12 GMT+02:00 Colin Smale <colin.sm...@xs4all.nl>: > >> If you have a block of flats with 2000 people apparently living at the same >> address, I can't imagine that a single, shared letter box will be enough. >> Each apartment will have its own address. >> Or are you talking about where each apartment has its own private letter box >> in the entrance hall? > > yes. the latter. They all have the same address, but they all have their own > individual letter box. There are many many cases like this. You (the mail > service) don't need a distinct address for each property (=apartment / unit). Maybe the postman doesn't care, but I (the sender of the letter) do. I want to know that the correct "John Smith" gets my letter. And I am not going to send everything with "recorded delivery" just in case. In my opinion, the apartment number (= the letterbox identifier) is therefore part of the address. >> Which would bring us back to "what's an address?" Is it for delivering >> letters, or is it about the property itself? > > it is all of this. You are of course absolutely right, my question was intended rhetorically... but nonetheless with a serious background. "Address" means different things to different people. Either we federalise and delegate responsibility for the model to countries (agree to differ), and give up on the futile exercise of trying to agree on a simple model that will fit every case in the world, or we analyse various systems across the world and make a more abstract model which can fit all of the cases analysed - which will probably be viewed by everyone as "unnecessarily complex" for their particular use case. > Cheers, > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging [1] Links: ------ [1] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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