Overview of an address and purpose of the workshop
Antony K Cooper · UpSpace Institutional Repository (University of Pretoria) · 2008
Various countries around the world have address standards or are developing them. There are also address standards developed by international organizations for specific domains (such as postal delivery) and initiatives to develop regional address standards (particularly, within Europe). This workshop was conceived with the aim of discussing what an address actually is and exploring the possibility of developing an international address standard across the various domains that use addresses. This paper attempts to provide an overview of addresses and address standards, presenting a preliminary taxonomy of addresses. 1. Background to the workshop There is a variety of addresses used for many purposes. Various countries around the world have address standards or are developing them. There are also address standards developed by international organizations for specific domains (such as postal delivery) and initiatives to develop regional address standards (particularly, within Europe). Coetzee et al (2008) assessed ten of these standards against a variety of criteria, such as the standard's status; its purpose; the availability of supporting material; whether the standard supports geo-referencing with coordinates, postal addresses and non-postal