Model structure precludes addresses with no localities/states

[furious-luke]

It occurs to me that some addresses may not have a state or locality (actually, I'm not sure this is true). It might be necessary to allow address without one or both of these. This will require a bit of a look at the model structure.

[LennyLip]

may be models must support xAL format?

[furious-luke]

That looks interesting, thanks!

[LennyLip]

I found only java implementation
https://github.com/Geomatys/geotoolkit/tree/master/modules/jaxb-xml-binding/geotk-xml-kml/src/main/java/org/geotoolkit/xal/xml/v20
and
https://github.com/citygml4j/citygml4j/tree/master/src/org/citygml4j/model/xal (looks better)

also xAL (simple version) using in android
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/location/Address.html,
source https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/blob/master/location/java/android/location/Address.java

[LennyLip]

another approach is create sql schema from xal.xsd (for example, using Altova XMLSpy) and run django inspectdb to create models from DB.

I'm trying to do it now

[furious-luke]

The latest version of django-address, 0.2 (still on the dev branch) will no longer be troubled by this issue. The code now constructs dynamic hierarchies of address components based on Google's results from geocoding.

[jplehmann]

We just spent 1 week migrating off the dev branch, only to find that this issue exists on master, and apparently has never been addressed.

Copenhagen, Denmark is an example.

This issue needs to be re-opened. @banagale

[banagale]

Sorry to hear that, John, that has to be frustrating.

I've re-opened it. Do you have a test available for this failing behavior by any chance?

[jplehmann]

Rob thanks for the quick response.

I don't have a unit test, but I have a test case... as mentioned "Copenhagen, Denmark".

We haven't thought about this that much, but our plans at the moment are:

1. First try to hack the Javascript so that the input always includes at least "UNKNOWN" as a state. This sounds like it might just work.
2. If that doesn't work and/or later, to create a patch for the lib which supports unknown states by creating an "unknown" entity.

Open to other ideas too.