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Identifier or geographic name of a specific geographic area, location, or other spatial object which defines the scope of an address.
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NOTE 1 Four different subclasses of address components are defined:
o Administrative unit name, which may include name of country, name of municipality, name of district
o Address area name like e.g. name of village or settlement
o Thoroughfare name, most often road name
o Postal descriptor
In order to construct an address, these subclasses are often structured hierarchically.
NOTE 2 It is the combination of the address locator and the address components, which makes a specific address spatial object readable and unambiguous for the human user.
EXAMPLE The combination of the locator "13" and the address components "Calle Mayor" (thoroughfare name), "Cortijo del Marqués" (address area name), "41037" (postal descriptor), "Écija", "Sevilla" and "España" (administrative unit names) makes this specific address spatial object readable and unambiguous. |
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