What would be the best schema to store the 'address' for different entities?

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Published on 2009-07-27T02:02:03Z Indexed on 2010/05/21 16:40 UTC
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street-address

Suppose we're making a system where we have to store the addrees for buildings, persons, cars, etc.

The address 'format' should be something like:

State  (From a State list)
County (From a County List)
Street (free text, like '5th Avenue')
Number (free text, like 'Chrysler Building, Floor 10, Office No. 10')

(Yes I don't live in U.S.A)

What would be the best way to store that info:

Should I have a Person_Address, Car_Address, ...
Or the address info should be in columns on each entity,
Could we have just one address table and try to link each row to a different entity?

Or are there another 'better' way to handle this type of scenario?
How would yo do it?

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