Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Post codes

I think I understand post codes now.

Don't think of an address as a street and street number. Think of an address as a post code.

The post code narrows your location down to just a few doors on a street. Think 5 doors (it'll probably be closer to 5 than 20). So which door is it exactly? Just provide a house name or a house number.

So a complete address can be something like "SW1V 3LX, 27", which would mean "Foostreet 27, SW1V 3LX, London". The 27 is just there to make it unique.

1 comment:

  1. In a lot of places in the US, your house-number on your street is the distance from where the street starts. Smart, but it only works if there is one long street, not with the kind of neighborhoods we have in Sweden

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