[AccessD] International Addresses

[Stuart McLachlan]

There are no internalonal common ways to represent addresses.

 You should be aware that household/business delivery is rare or non-existent in many 
places, so depending on purpose, you may need to store both a mailing address and a 
physical address which may be in different suburbs or even towns.

What is the purpose of storing the data. Do you want to be able to sort/group locations?

It's often best to use a single multi-line field as Address, then have separate
Town/City, State/Province, Country fields.
If you use Address1, Address2, Address3 etc  you will almoste certainly end up with some 
records with Country in Address 3 and others with Country in Address 4 or 5 etc.  making 
reporting an absolute PITA.


On 12 Nov 2021 at 9:45, David Emerson wrote:

> Hi Listers,
> 
> I am writing a system that potentially could be used globally.  I am
> looking for guidance on how to handle storing address fields.  At this
> stage the data is just to record site addresses and probably (famous
> last words) will not be used for mailouts as most of the sites will be
> unattended.
> 
> Should I just use a simple structure such as AddressLine1,
> AddressLine2, AddressLine3, Addressline4, AddressLine5 or is there a
> more elegant way of doing it?
> 
> Regards
> 
> David Emerson
> Dalyn Software Ltd
> Wellington, New Zealand
> 
> 
> 
> 
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