Address

Address

Figure 46 shows the concepts for a delivery or street address are defined from a profile of an existing ISO standard for this purpose, ISO-19160-4.

Figure 46 - Address class model

Addressing is a complex topic, with significant regional and national variations used. Addressing data models that attempt to fully model any form of postal or delivery address are inherently complex and not easy to interpret and therefore it is common practice to provide a simplified model that supports the definition of most postal or delivery address (street addresses). On initial inspection of the simple model above some user may think some critical concepts are missing, such as US States. These have been addressed by the generators of the ISO19160-4 standard by extensive notes that are not repeated fully here. By way of example, the following can be found in ISO19160-4:

- For Region (that can be seen in the AddressLineTypeEnum): - Element indicating the name of the area within or adjacent to the town in which a delivery point is located, or via which it is accessed. - EXAMPLE Hamlet, Estate, Sector, Arrondissement, Conjunto, Colonia Juarez, Kebele 4, Moo 11 NOTE 1: This element appears in the delivery point specification segment. It comprises subelements for levels of district, each with positions, with a type and indicator for each level and position.

NOTE 2: A district may be a commonly known name for an area, or it may be an area assigned for postal or administrative purposes. A district or sector may be one of several areas with a similar naming structure that may include a type and indicator structure.

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