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Most data sources do not require that names or addresses are unique. For example, a large shopping mall or leisure park might have several customer service sites, all called as 'Customer service' but with different coordinates. Currently deduping removes all but the first entry. Maybe this is not the right action?

Anyway, allowing duplicate names would set some new requirements for label generation, because the user must be able to differentiate the presented items. One possibility would be adding some automatic qualifiers such as 'Customer service (north)' etc.

Adding a couple of examples where two addresses with the same name are not quite at the same coordinates. These might serve as good test cases if/when this feature gets implemented.

openaddresses:address:us/ca/alameda:25b391133c7002d5
openstreetmap:address:way/824683453

openstreetmap:venue:node/5568763423
openstreetmap:address:way/176312585