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At the moment when you select "Use another contact's address" on contact A's record and you enter the name of Contact B you are presented with all Contact B's addresses, but you have no idea what location type they are.

This is not a problem if all the addresses are different for contact B, but, for us at least, mostly two are the same (Billing and Postal for us, perhaps Home and Billing for others)  This means you could be linking to the billing address when you actually wanted to link to the Postal or vice versa.

Just because Contact B has two addresses that are the same when you share the address with contact A doesn't mean they always will be, so you may have contact A's address changed when it shouldn't be or not changed when it should be.

I think it would be good for the location type to be in brackets beside displayed addresses during the initial set up of the shared address.

Issue created https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-15850