Country-Specific Address display

[species]

In some countries, an address is written in the form

• $housenumber $streetname

in others

• $streetname $housenumber.

This should be switchted dependent on the country the POI is in. Is there somewhere a list of the different address formats worldwide?

[matt-wallis]

Is this what you're looking for? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_(geography)#Mailing_address_format_by_country It specifies address formats for 62 countries, so clearly it is not exhaustive. Maybe there's a sensible default for countries not mentioned here?

[josefkreitmayer]

Thx @matt-wallis we went throug it, and found quite some specifics for the countries we were working with up to now:

• France: no. before street
• Hungary: city first, post code in the end.
• Ireland: post code after city/town/region
• UK: post code after city/town/region -Rumania, post code after city/town
• Latvia: post code after city/town (also distinction between city and rural addresses, we cannot take into consideration)
• Italy: also has region in the address

[species]

Does anyone know of a machine-readable version of this list? We're using OpenStreetMap's addr:* scheme, as it allows more flexibility than e.g. schema.org's PostalAddress.

This could be a good starting point for a new library to transform addresses into a country-specific format for display. @tyrasd would it make sense to start a small library on this, or is there already one?

[tyrasd]

Does anyone know of a machine-readable version of this list?

iD has country specific address field ordering (intended for user input, but requirements for output should be quite symetrical, I'd think): https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/blob/master/data/address-formats.json

Italy: also has region in the address

@josefkreitmayer: You mean the abbreviated province (e.g. BZ), not the region. Also, it's not as common anymore nowadays.

[josefkreitmayer]

@josefkreitmayer: You mean the abbreviated province (e.g. BZ), not the region. Also, it's not as common anymore nowadays.

Apparently it is a must "[postal code + city + province code]". I verified the information here:

• http://www.postadressglobal.com/country/italy/formatting-and-structure-of-italian-addresses/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_postal_codes_in_Italy

It is not mandatory for big cities.