German town votes ‘No’ to street names
None of the discussion I've seen here so far has raised what I think to be a much more important point: there should be an extra level of indirection between me and my physical mailing address.  In other words, there should be a DNS for physical mailing addresses.  That way my publicly visible "host name" wouldn't reveal where I actually live (makes it harder for burglars to find me) and if I move I only have to update my real physical location in one place (my "name server") rather than with everyone who wants to send me mail.  Also, publicly-facing logical addresses (the analogue to "host names") could be mnemonic, and one person could have multiple aliases.  So you could, for example, send physical mail to (say) "Lisper@HN".<p>This way no one except delivery people would care what these addresses resolved to.  They could be lat/long, traditional street addresses, X-codes, whatever.