On 21 Feb 2014 17:03, "Ian Hickson" <i...@hixie.ch> wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, Kevin Marks wrote: > >
> > > Those names come from vcard - if adding a new one, consider how to model it > > in vcard too. Note that UK addresses can have this too - eg 3 high street, > > Kenton, Harrow, Middlesex, UK > > That's actually a bogus UK address. I'm not sure exactly which town you > meant that to be in, but official UK addresses never have more than two > "region" levels, and usually only one (the "post town"). The only time > they have two is when the post town has two streets with the same name. The real address, where I grew up, was: 2 Melbury Road, Kenton, Harrow, Middlesex, HA3 9RA > > (Note that a lot of people in the UK have no idea how to write their > address according to current standards. For example, people often include > the county, give the "real" town rather than the "post town", put things > out of order, indent each line of the address, etc.) Damn humans, not following specs. Actually UK addresses have a huge amount of leeway, as they are routed by postcode in the main (though I did receive a postcard addressed to "Kevin, Sidney, Cambridge" once). UK forms tend to ask for postcode and street number these days, and barf when given US addresses
