Practical International Data Management - Unstructured addresses

In many parts of the world the infrastructure, such as street names, name boards, building numbering and so on, does not exists to allow physical postal addresses to be structured.

Resources

• Kabul: Streets with no names from the BBC, September 2011. (Cached version)
• When Getting Directions, It Helps To Know Where the Fig Tree Was - Costa Rica Addresses Its Lack of Street Names from The Wall Street Journal, June 2012. (Cached version)
• African view: Navigation problems, from the BBC, December 2009. (Cached version)

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