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@seav@en.osm.townI 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/
To be fair, #OpenStreetMap’s way of tagging addresses is far from perfect, but I’d like to think that OSM mappers as a whole don’t have the hubris of thinking that there is a one-size-fits-all schema for addresses.
FOSSGIS @seav or ireland
France, 
Switzerland, 
Canada, 
Wales, 
Scotland, 
England (all slightly different), let alone lots of places where buildings just don''t have an address. 
Spain may require door & floor information too.
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!
@seav The good thing with OpenStreetMap is you don't have to worry about a perfect tagging scheme because you'll always have three half-baked ones and a new draft from 2015 to choose from.
@seav We are well aware and expect the schema to become more complex in the future. This initial PR aligns with the output of OpenAddresses conform schema definition.
@jwass2000 @seav also OpenAddresses is very aware of different addressing schemes. It's based on OSM's, and is designed to be flexible and improve as we find more data. So far we haven't had to stretch too far, but I expect that will change as we focus more on opening data from around the world.
@jwass2000 and @ian, thank you so much for clarifying the intent of the PR. I’ve updated my original post to point to your replies and to repeat what you both said about the address schema being intentionally simple at first.