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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/
@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.
@seav@en.osm.town@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.