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Posted by Standards Guy on July 8, 2006, 3:17 pm
Please log in for more thread options While there is no international standard for addressing, there ar two
new draft international standards for expressing names and addresses
addresses in a standardized (interoperable) way. These are the
extensible Address Language (xAL v3.0) and the extensible Name and
Address Language (xNAL v3.0). Check out the Oasis web site location at
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ciq .
Also, if a lighter-weight XML based mechanism is required for encoding
and communicating addresses, check out the OGC Location Services core
specification
(http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=8836) and check
out how to deal with addresses.
In both the OGC and OASIS cases, these standards are designed to work
pretty much any where in the world.
As these are not fixed format content standards, they are very flexible
for expressing addresses.
Cheers
Carl Reed
OGC
katherine.hancock@gmail.com wrote:
> We are looking for some best practices for how to collect name and
> address data that will accomodate international information. For
> example, how many name fields are suggested? What are the lengths? How
> many address lines? Etc. Can anyone point me in the direction of
> standards that we could use?
>
> Thank you!
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