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.

Âą 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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@seav

Ha ha ha ha... they probably have not seen any house address of ones in remote villages of Malaysia.

No street names almost at all times. No house numbers sometimes - only land parcel references!

Jun 19, 2024 at 2:40pmWeb