Source Conflicts Register
Traditional / directory field guide

Source conflicts

Confirm a unit number when map and address records disagree

A practical guide for the place data researcher, focused on one public listing decision.

Keep the building address and the unit identifier visible together in the resulting record.

To confirm a unit number when map and address records disagree, start with the decision a visitor needs to make. In source conflicts, a small wording or field change can alter where someone goes, who they contact or what they expect. This guide keeps the review tied to that one task.

01

What matters for source conflicts

For this task, compare authority, date and independence of the competing sources rather than counting how often a claim is copied. The immediate aim is to confirm a unit number when map and address records disagree; expanding the review to unrelated fields makes it harder to see whether this correction was justified. Identify the exact public wording or stored value before deciding what to replace.

02

Prepare the place data researcher’s evidence

Gather competing source dates and accountable business confirmation and identify which part supports “Confirm a unit number when map and address records disagree”. Keep the source value, the proposed public version and the person responsible for confirmation distinguishable. Where accountable confirmation is unavailable, record the disagreement and avoid converting uncertainty into a confident public statement. If the supplied material does not establish the affected detail, retain that question rather than filling it with a plausible guess.

03

The mistake to look for

For “Confirm a unit number when map and address records disagree”, consider this hypothetical review: consider a hypothetical record for Unit 6 at 24 Example Street. Replacing the street field with only the unit helps identify an internal space but loses the route to the building. The example illustrates a decision risk, not a verified business record. For the place data researcher, the important comparison is between the intended meaning and the impression created by the current listing.

04

Make a bounded correction

The correction for “Confirm a unit number when map and address records disagree” should change only the unsupported or misleading part. Keep the building address and the unit identifier visible together in the resulting record. Keep any operating limitation beside the detail it qualifies. If the platform cannot represent the distinction in its structured fields, use a concise explanatory note where supported instead of inventing a field value.

05

Check the public result

After the edit, revisit the public record used for source conflicts and read it from a first-time visitor’s perspective. Compare it with competing source dates and accountable business confirmation; also check that saving or exporting has not shortened, reformatted or displaced the important detail. Record what is visible now and what still requires a separate check. Completion of “Confirm a unit number when map and address records disagree” means the specific correction can be demonstrated, rather than merely that an edit was submitted.

Before marking this task complete

  • Is the purpose of “Confirm a unit number when map and address records disagree” clear in the published result?
  • Does the affected detail agree with competing source dates and accountable business confirmation?
  • Has the place data researcher retained unresolved questions separately from approved wording?