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This remains a solved problem. The location phrase specifies the coarse location. Additional addressing information is used to introduce granularity. Look at
by ygjb 10y ago
This remains a solved problem. The location phrase specifies the coarse location. Additional addressing information is used to introduce granularity. Look at how addresses are conventionally written already, and in a good chunk of the world, the addresses are written top to bottom, most specific to least specific. The largest remaining problem is that the location mapping depends on a proprietary database, but this is a common problem (in Canada the database of postal codes is also proprietary).
- bhandziuk 10y agothat's mostly true, except US/Canada we put the zip/postal code at the end which is more specific than the city/state/province. But your gist remains true.
- ygjb 10y agoTrue, but do note that postal codes and ZIP codes are a recent adoption, only deployed in US/UK/Canada since the 1960s The history of post addresses is quite interesting in it's own right :)