From: | Gunther Schadow <gunther(at)aurora(dot)rg(dot)iupui(dot)edu> |
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To: | Ron Peterson <rpeterson(at)yellowbank(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: International Address Format Standard |
Date: | 2000-06-18 02:41:24 |
Message-ID: | 394C36D4.1F3654C1@aurora.rg.iupui.edu |
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Ron,
the Universal Postal Union [http://www.upu.int] keeps some record
about internationally used address formats. However, what they have is
also not a standard, but more of an inventory of national peculiarities
[http://www.upu.int/addressing/AN/AN.pdf]. In HL7, an international
health care standard, we have been struggling with a standard address
format for quite a while, and we now came up with an alternative
solution, which is more like a text-markup approach than a fixed
data structure. This works well for addresses and person names. You
can see our draft specification at [http://aurora.rg.iupui.edu/v3dt],
and specifically you can see an explanation and example of our
approach at [http://aurora.rg.iupui.edu/v3dt/report.html#PostalAddress]
Hope this might help. If you have comments or suggestions, please
contact me.
thanks,
-Gunther
Ron Peterson wrote:
>
> Is there any such thing as a standard schema for international
> addresses? Maybe I'm grasping at straws, but one can always hope. I
> can find information about individual countries easily enough. But how
> about a general solution? Or is this just pie in the sky?
>
> Ron Peterson
> rpeterson(at)yellowbank(dot)com
>
> ************
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