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A PHP addressing library, powered by CLDR and Google's address data.
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Add administrative areas for Great Britain (GB) #111

Open viovet-dan opened 6 years ago

viovet-dan commented 6 years ago

Currently the format is "format": "%recipient\n%organization\n%addressLine1\n%addressLine2\n%locality\n%postalCode",

it should be

"format": "%recipient\n%organization\n%addressLine1\n%addressLine2\n%locality\n%administrativeArea\n%postalCode",

bojanz commented 6 years ago

You will want to open a bug report at https://github.com/googlei18n/libaddressinput/issues, our dataset is automatically generated from Google's endpoint.

However, do note that according to the Universal Postal Union, administrative areas are not used for postal addresses in the UK: http://www.upu.int/fileadmin/documentsFiles/activities/addressingUnit/gbrEn.pdf

viovet-dan commented 6 years ago

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Although the administrative area is not "required" for a postal address (this rule was changed in 2010), it is still widley used in the UK.

brandonkelly commented 8 months ago

@bojanz Could this be worth reconsidering, now that subdivisions aren’t autogenerated from Google?

bojanz commented 8 months ago

Sure! I've been wanting to add an opt-in mechanism for "unused for official addressing but still wanted" administrative areas. Great Britain would be a good use case as it used to be one of the most requested ones, back when we couldn't do anything about it.

i-just commented 8 months ago

Great news @bojanz! We had a lot of requests about GB counties. An optin mechanism sounds great! A while ago, we decided to roll our own dataset for GB coutnties as a lot of people needed those, but having all the data come from one source, would be amazing and could potentially simplify things for our users. The most prominent example of where GB counties are often being used is: shipping zones - the shipping availability, timings and cost are often different for non-mainland UK (e.g. Shetland Islands, Northern Ireland). In case it helps, the PR I linked to above has links to some issues where people explained their needs. I hope this helps!

nfourtythree commented 1 month ago

Hi @bojanz

Sure! I've been wanting to add an opt-in mechanism for "unused for official addressing but still wanted" administrative areas. Great Britain would be a good use case as it used to be one of the most requested ones, back when we couldn't do anything about it.

Any update on this?