MapAm💜re

If you're into #maps, you'd probably find this short documentary interesting:

Navigating a City Without Street Addresses | Direcciones | The New Yorker Documentary
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=wxWfpBQvfLs

For those of you contributing to #OpenStreetMap, the unstructured address they're talking about in the video is what you'll put into OSM's addr:full tag,

Dec 16, 2023 at 3:25amWeb
Show threadMapAm💜reDec 17, 2023

> *If Costa Rican addresses are based on an alternative understanding of space, they are also infused with a nonlinear conception of time.*

Read the story behind the film here:
https://newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/an-intimate-cartography-of-costa-rica-in-direcciones

An Intimate Cartography of Costa Rica in “Direcciones”

Oriana van Praag on “Direcciones,” a short film by María Luisa Santos and Carlo Nasisse, about how addresses in Costa Rica are steeped in history and community.

The New Yorker
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@MapAmore Thanks for sharing! Ppl might consider using `reference_point` which was created exactly for the address system described in this nice video: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:reference_point
Key:reference_point - OpenStreetMap Wiki