Re: Address formatting functionality

[Håvard Sørli <..hidden..>]

On 07. mai 2012 05:30, John Locke wrote:
> Drupal 7 has been addressing :-P these issues with an "addressfield"
> module ( http://drupal.org/project/addressfield ), which aims to
> incorporate the flexibility of xNAL - http://xml.coverpages.org/xnal.html .

Interesting ..

I did some more digging..

When we are on the "standard track"...

http://www.upu.int/en/activities/addressing/addressing-the-world-initiative.html

Established in 1874, the Universal Postal Union (UPU)
is a specialized agency of the United Nations , 192 member countries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Postal_Union

UPU has developed two addressing standards: S42 and S53.
http://www.upu.int/en/activities/addressing/standards.html

I have not looked at UPU S42 and S53 to vertify if its part of xNAL
standard.


As a side note (The long run ?):

UPU has a Universal POST*CODE® DataBase
http://www.upu.int/en/resources/postcodes/universal-postcoder-database.html

Sad: UPU is an UN orgnaistaion, and you have to sign a
"Non-Disclosure Agreement - POST*CODE User" ....
(From "Licence Documents")

POST*CODE® DataBase "it was very expensive" - recommends  GEONAMES
http://www.clarion-software.com/index.php?group=6&id=52433

And the price is high.. (From "Licence Documents")
1 Basic licence WORLD (191 countries)  10 880 CHF


GEONAMES
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoNames

Perl: Geo::GeoNames
http://search.cpan.org/~perhenrik/Geo-GeoNames/lib/Geo/GeoNames.pm

or OpenStreetmap.org
http://www.openstreetmap.org/  (Has all the Norwegian postcodes )
used by http://www.fiksgatami.no/  (fix my street) (www.mysociety.org/)


or the openaddresses.org intiative:
http://code.google.com/p/openaddresses/


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