Fwd: Curious about modeling Hanoi Addresses

["Ram Kumar" <kumar.sydney@gmail.com>]

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From: Ram Kumar <kumar.sydney@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 3, 2006 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: Curious about modeling Hanoi Addresses
To: Tom Lancaster <tom@newhanoian.com>


Hi Tom,

Representation of your address below. Given that Blind alley does not
have a name, but a number 47, I used the thoroughfare name to be "47".

<AddressDetails>
       <Country>
               <CountryName>Vietnam</CountryName>
               <AdministrativeArea Type="City">
                       <AdministrativeAreaName>Hanoi</AdministrativeAreaName>
                       <Locality Type="District">
                               <LocalityName>Dong Da</LocalityName>
                                       <Thoroughfare Type="alley">

<ThoroughfareNumber>378</ThoroughfareNumber>
                                               <ThoroughfareName>Duong
Le Duan</ThoroughfareName>

<DependentThoroughfare Type="blind alley">

<ThoroughfareName>47</ThoroughfareName>
                                                       </DependentThoroughfare>
                                                       <Premise Type="House">

<PremiseNumber>5</PremiseNumber>
                                                       </Premise>
                                       </Thoroughfare>
                       </Locality>
               </AdministrativeArea>
       </Country>
</AddressDetails>

On 9/3/06, Tom Lancaster <tom@newhanoian.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've reviewed the examples in the download, and unfortunately didn't find
> anything that resembles Hanoi addresses. If you have time to look at this
> I'd appreciate your advice (or if you can recommend to me a mailing list
> that might help).
>
> My address in Hanoi, for instance ( and it is of the complex type ) is
>
> 5 378/47 Duong Le Duan,
> Dong Da,
> Ha Noi.
>
> Where "5" is house number,
> "378" is alley number ( this number corresponds to the address of the house
> on Duong Le Duan that is closest to the alley inlet )
> "47" is blind alley number ( meaning the number of the house closest to the
> inlet of the dead-end alley, on the above alley )
> "Duong Le Duan" Means Le Duan Way,
> "Dong Da" is the district of the city.
> "Ha Noi" is, of course, the city
>
>
> This is the modern way of doing addresses here. Previously people talked
> about wards and other things which are obscure to me.
>
> TIA,
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Tom Lancaster
>
>
>