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Having worked on that a bit (I wrote the schema for planning applications in Scotland) ... that stuff is a mess. Take a read of this for starters: http://www.m

Having worked on that a bit (I wrote the schema for planning applications in Scotland) ... that stuff is a mess. Take a read of this for starters: http://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/ http://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-ab... The requirements for the work I did meant that we had to support the UK's NLPG standard for addresses which didn't even work for the house I live in so I knew I was off to a bad start :)

realusername 12y ago
That is a very good list. I would also add to this list that unlike what people think, numbers are not necessary following each other (they can be completely random), the even/odd rule might also not be respected and the building number can also contain letters.