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Is there an ISO standard address format? I can't seem to find one, and I'd like to know for object- and database-design purposes.

(One interesting document that shows a bunch of formats is this: http://www.bitboost.com/ref/international-address-formats.html, but it's insane!)

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anonymous Avatar asked Jan 30 '11 03:01

anonymous


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No; each country defines its own standard.

There have been a number of questions about this in times past, including:

  • Best practices for storing postal addresses in an RDBMS
  • Is there a common street address database design for all addresses of the world

The second of those itself has references to a number of other SO questions.

You might want to check out the grandiosely named Universal Postal Union and its standards.

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Jonathan Leffler Avatar answered Oct 14 '22 03:10

Jonathan Leffler


There are none. However, you can also consider that place is usually contained in a bigger place.

So, you can also use the hierarchical structure of places in following an address format. Which also means it differs from country-to-country.

You can read stuffs about this on:

  • Universal Postal Union's paper Addressing the world, an address for everyone
  • Place ontology from schema.org
  • PostalAddress ontology from schema.org.
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Abel Callejo Avatar answered Oct 14 '22 03:10

Abel Callejo