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"vr.tr.house-numbering", "name": "house numbering", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a house-numbering arrangement, assess whether its assignments identify premises unambiguously, and determine which numbering or display changes require validation or authority.", "definition": "House numbering is the assignment of numeric or alphanumeric address designators to buildings, entrances or premises within a defined street or locality addressing system so that they can be distinguished and located.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the rules, assignments, representations and maintenance of house numbers used to distinguish premises within a defined addressing context, including the relationship between an assigned number and the location it identifies.", "in_scope": [ "Numbering schemes and their street, block, settlement or other reference contexts", "Assignment of numbers, suffixes and number ranges to buildings, premises, plots or entrances", "Sequence, side allocation, 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assignment.", "The numbered referent may be an entrance, premises, building or plot; it must not automatically be equated with a cadastral parcel.", "Numbering order can follow a declared local rule rather than a universally increasing, odd-even street sequence.", "A number or suffix belongs here when it participates in premises addressing; a room label, parcel identifier or building asset code with similar characters may belong elsewhere." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Numbering reference context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named street, block, settlement, zone or other explicitly identified context", "why_it_matters": "Establishes the context in which a number can distinguish one addressed location from another." }, { "name": "Numbered referent", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Building, premises, entrance, plot, grouped premises, locally defined referent or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an agent from assuming a one-to-one relationship between numbers and buildings." }, { "name": "Assigned designation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Exact locally assigned expression, preserving letters, separators, leading zeros and script where significant", "why_it_matters": "Supports faithful identification without destructive conversion to an integer." }, { "name": "Allocation rule", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Sequential, side-separated, block-based, distance-based, locally specified, mixed or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Determines which apparent gaps or ordering differences are meaningful." }, { "name": "Sequence origin and direction", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Declared starting reference and progression along the numbering context, or unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Allows spatial order to be checked against the applicable scheme." }, { "name": "Assignment standing", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Proposed, approved but not effective, current, retired, disputed or unverified", "why_it_matters": "Separates a usable current assignment from a proposal, historical label or unsupported observation." }, { "name": "Responsible authority", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Authority responsible for the assignment, with evidence of its role, or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Identifies who can validate an assignment or approve a change." }, { "name": "Display condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Present and readable, obscured, missing, conflicting, uninspected or not applicable", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes an assignment that exists in records from one that can be recognised on site." }, { "name": "Assignment multiplicity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Count of current referents associated with the same designation within the declared reference context", "why_it_matters": "Flags potential ambiguity while allowing documented shared-number arrangements." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve a house number and its reference context to candidate premises or entrances while preserving ambiguity.", "Check assignments against documented sequence, side, suffix and uniqueness rules.", "Compare authorised assignments with displayed numbers and digital address records.", "Assess numbering options for infill, subdivision or merged premises under the applicable local rules.", "Prepare an evidence-backed assignment or renumbering proposal for the responsible authority.", "Trace former numbers to current assignments without treating historical aliases as current designations." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Explain how a house numbering system works in a stated locality.", "Check an address against the official address register." ], "must_not": [ "Assign or change house numbers without the competent authority.", "Combine addresses with other data to profile or track residents.", "Publish a person's home address without consent or a legal basis." ], "requires_human": [ "Correcting an official address record.", "Directing emergency services when an address is ambiguous." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Clear addresses help emergency services reach people quickly.", "Informal settlements without numbers leave residents without services." ], "affected_parties": [ "Residents", "Emergency services", "Postal and delivery workers" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The municipal or addressing authority that assigns numbers.", "master_systems": [ "Official address registers", "Cadastre or land registry" ] }, "visual_identification": [ "Numbers or alphanumeric codes on plaques, doors, gates or walls of buildings.", "Often follow odd and even sides of a street." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Duplicate or missing numbers delay emergency response.", "Renumbering causes mail and service errors." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "ISO 19160-1 Addressing, Conceptual model, International Organization for Standardization.", "UPU S42 International postal address components and templates, Universal Postal Union." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "House numbering distinguishes buildings, entrances or premises within a street or locality so that people and services can locate them.", "It supports postal delivery, emergency response, utility records, navigation and public administration.", "Assignments are encountered on address plates, maps and official address registers, with local rules determining sequences and exceptions." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q125246381: house numbering", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125246381", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: House numbering", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_numbering", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "numbered-referents", "name": "Numbered referents", "description": "Establishes what receives a house number and the context that gives the designation meaning.", "rationale": "House numbers cannot be interpreted reliably without knowing both their referent and their addressing context.", "layers": [ { "id": "reference-context", "name": "Reference context", "description": "Identifies the street, block or other context within which assignments are interpreted.", "findings": [ { "id": "number-context-pair", "name": "Number and context", "description": "Record the designation together with the contextual identifiers needed to distinguish its intended location.", "questions": [ { "text": "Within which street, block, settlement or other reference context is this house number assigned?", "kind": "definition", "id": "number-context-pair-q01" }, { "text": "What additional context is required when the same designation occurs in more than one nearby location?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "number-context-pair-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "assignment-target", "name": "Assignment target", "description": "Separates the addressed object from neighbouring buildings, parcels and internal units.", "findings": [ { "id": "premises-entrance-mapping", "name": "Premises and entrance mapping", "description": "Record whether the number identifies a building, plot, premises, entrance or group, including shared and multiple assignments.", "questions": [ { "text": "What precisely receives this number, and which evidence establishes that referent?", "kind": "definition", "id": "premises-entrance-mapping-q01" }, { "text": "Do multiple entrances share this number, or does the same premises have separately assigned numbers?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "premises-entrance-mapping-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "allocation-logic", "name": "Allocation logic", "description": "Describes the local rules that generate and constrain house-number assignments.", "rationale": "An agent must assess numbering against the actual scheme rather than assume that every street uses consecutive odd and even numbers.", "layers": [ { "id": "spatial-progression", "name": "Spatial progression", "description": "Captures how numbering relates to direction, street sides, blocks or distance.", "findings": [ { "id": "sequence-and-side-rule", "name": "Sequence and side rule", "description": "Record the allocation method, starting reference, progression and any side-specific rules, distinguishing documented rules from inferred patterns.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which documented rule determines the order and side allocation of numbers in this context?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "sequence-and-side-rule-q01" }, { "text": "Which observed assignments depart from that rule, and are those departures documented exceptions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "sequence-and-side-rule-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "infill-and-compound-designations", "name": "Infill and compound designations", "description": "Addresses suffixes, gaps, ranges and other provisions for additional or grouped premises.", "findings": [ { "id": "designation-extension", "name": "Designation extension", "description": "Record the local meaning and permitted use of suffixes, reserved numbers and ranges without assuming that punctuation has a universal meaning.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does this scheme allocate a number when premises are inserted between existing assignments?", "kind": "action", "id": "designation-extension-q01" }, { "text": "Does a compound designation denote one assigned label, a range of premises, multiple entrances or internal units?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "designation-extension-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "assignment-authority-and-change", "name": "Assignment authority and change", "description": "Connects numbering decisions to responsible authorities and tracks their effective history.", "rationale": "A plausible or displayed number does not establish who assigned it or whether it is current.", "layers": [ { "id": "assignment-evidence", "name": "Assignment evidence", "description": "Identifies the source and standing of a proposed or recorded number.", "findings": [ { "id": "authorised-number", "name": "Authorised number", "description": "Record the assigning authority, supporting decision or register, and whether the assignment is verified, proposed or contested.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which authority or authorised process assigned this number, and what record supports that attribution?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "authorised-number-q01" }, { "text": "Who may approve a new assignment or correct this assignment under the applicable local process?", "kind": "action", "id": "authorised-number-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "renumbering-history", "name": "Renumbering history", "description": "Preserves temporal relationships between former and current designations.", "findings": [ { "id": "number-transition", "name": "Number transition", "description": "Record effective dates and predecessor-successor relationships when renumbering, subdivision or merger changes assignments.", "questions": [ { "text": "When did each former and current assignment take effect or cease to apply?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "number-transition-q01" }, { "text": "Does an old number map to one current referent or require further disambiguation after a subdivision or merger?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "number-transition-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "number-representation-and-display", "name": "Number representation and display", "description": "Connects the assigned designation to its recorded and physical forms.", "rationale": "House numbers must remain recognisable across registers, signs and agent processing without losing meaningful characters or entrance associations.", "layers": [ { "id": "designation-fidelity", "name": "Designation fidelity", "description": "Preserves the assigned expression while distinguishing accepted variants from different numbers.", "findings": [ { "id": "canonical-and-observed-forms", "name": "Canonical and observed forms", "description": "Record the authoritative form and observed variants, with explicit evidence for any equivalence used in matching.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which characters, separators, script choices or leading zeros are significant in the assigned designation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "canonical-and-observed-forms-q01" }, { "text": "Which transformations are documented as preserving identity, and which could collapse distinct house numbers?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "canonical-and-observed-forms-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "on-site-identification", "name": "On-site identification", "description": "Assesses whether physical displays identify the intended premises or entrance.", "findings": [ { "id": "display-to-referent-agreement", "name": "Display-to-referent agreement", "description": "Record the displayed designation, its placement, observation conditions and agreement with the assigned referent.", "questions": [ { "text": "From which approach can the number be read, and is its association with the intended entrance clear?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "display-to-referent-agreement-q01" }, { "text": "What correction is appropriate when the display is missing, misleading or inconsistent with the verified assignment?", "kind": "action", "id": "display-to-referent-agreement-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "resolution-and-consistency", "name": "Resolution and consistency", "description": "Assesses whether numbering supports dependable identification across records and physical locations.", "rationale": "A complete-looking number sequence can still misdirect an agent through duplicate assignments, stale records or incorrect entrance mappings.", "layers": [ { "id": "ambiguity-detection", "name": "Ambiguity detection", "description": "Identifies collisions and apparent gaps without treating every irregularity as an error.", "findings": [ { "id": "collision-and-gap-assessment", "name": "Collision and gap assessment", "description": "Evaluate repeated or absent designations against the declared reference context, allocation rules and known shared assignments.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many current referents match this number within its reference context, and what distinguishes them?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "collision-and-gap-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "Is an apparent gap an unassigned number, a reservation, a retired assignment or an expected consequence of the scheme?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "collision-and-gap-assessment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "record-reconciliation", "name": "Record reconciliation", "description": "Compares assignment evidence with address datasets and observed premises.", "findings": [ { "id": "number-location-consistency", "name": "Number-location consistency", "description": "Record discrepancies among authoritative assignments, digital location records and site observations, retaining source dates and unresolved conflicts.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which records and observations support the number-to-premises mapping, and when were they current?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "number-location-consistency-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence or authority is needed to resolve conflicting numbers or entrance locations before changing a record?", "kind": "action", "id": "number-location-consistency-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to 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"Locality-wide numbering independent of street names" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of house numbering this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Locally assigned house or premises number", "value_or_pattern": "An integer, sometimes extended by a letter, suffix, fraction or number range", "note": "Usually unique only within its street or other addressing area; it is not a globally unique building identifier." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of house numbering this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Universal Postal Union S42: international postal address components and templates for representing addresses, including premises-number components." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of house numbering this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Postal and parcel delivery", "Emergency-service dispatch and locating entrances", "Navigation and geocoding", "Identifying service locations for utilities", "Maintaining municipal address records" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of house numbering this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Missing, obscured or illegible number signs can delay deliveries and emergency response.", "Duplicate or ambiguous numbers within an addressing area can direct users to the wrong premises.", "Renumbering without synchronized record updates can leave conflicting addresses in circulation.", "Subdivision and infill can produce confusing suffixes, ranges or shared numbers.", "A number associated with the wrong entrance or map position can misdirect access to a property." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of house numbering this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Odd-even, consecutive and horseshoe arrangements occur in different jurisdictions; direction and starting points also vary.", "Some rural systems derive numbers from distance along a road rather than simply counting buildings.", "Some Japanese addressing systems identify buildings within blocks rather than through street-based numbering." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of house numbering this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Postal address", "difference": "A postal address combines delivery-location components; a house number 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