Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses (2013)
by Symbiote on Thursday October 29, 2020 @06:27AM
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When I moved in to a new apartment in Copenhagen, it took about a year for the address to be present on most websites that tried to autocomplete it.
Almost all of them let me input it myself if the autocomplete failed. I did have to phone Yousee so they could provide broadband.
I think you could build something similar with OpenStreetMaps if your bureaucracy sucks, but it’s a massive undertaking of course.
What surprises me the most is how countries that don’t do this, keeps track of all the other GIS related things. Like how much electricity or plumbing a cadastre will need. Or perhaps more important, taxes and property taxes.