Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭Jun 19, 2024

I became aware of this #OvertureMaps PR¹ and you can tell that it seems they haven’t read “Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses”².

“All addresses have [...] street, number, [...] postcode.” Good luck recording addresses in Japan!

UPDATE! @jwass2000 (who opened the PR) and @ian (founder of #OpenAddresses) have replied saying that the address schema is intentionally simple at first but will eventually be more sophisticated.

¹ https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema/pull/193

² https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/

Addresses by jwass · Pull Request #193 · OvertureMaps/schema

See initial PR #179 Addresses defines a point to describe a single address. All addresses have: country street number unit (optional) postcode Furthermore we need 3 "admin levels". Depending on t...

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@amapanda @seav Or rural 🇫🇷 France, 🇨🇭 Switzerland, 🇨🇦 Canada, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England (all slightly different), let alone lots of places where buildings just don''t have an address.

And functional addresses in 🇪🇸 Spain may require door & floor information too.