Mine is an extreme situation - but we've never had a confused visitor
as those numbers are around 5km apart. The normal suburban system -
number, street, suburb. A simple hierarchy where a street with 200
blocks on it has numbers 1-200. If a block is divided at some stage
the 81a and 81b might be used.
The schemes you describe seem to require a minor degree in
mathematics - or a very long period of acclimatisation. It has a
logic, but then so does the Tokyo system I believe. I guess we all
find the system that we grew up with to be simple, obvious and
intuitive - it's only stupid foreigners who have the sheer bad
manners to say 'Shit that's weird.'
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 14/03/2007, at 8:59 PM, Moose wrote:
> Andrew Fildes wrote:
>> Truly bizarre.
>> I live at #114. It's about 2km from the start point of a road that
>> travels over 20km from a fringe town to a rural 'village.'
>> Numbers never get high because as it crosses from one district to
>> another, the numbering restarts. I'm 114 in Selby - on the same road
>> there's also a 114 in Menzies Creek, then Emerald, then Cockatoo and
>> the Gembrook.
> Common usage varies a lot, even around this country. What you describe
> would seem bizarre to many in the US. Leaving postal issues alone, I
> imagine following instructions to your house at night, and giving up
> after the second or third wrong house with the right number.
> In some places, greater Seattle and Greater Salt Lake City come to
> mind,
> streets and roads are numbered with a system such that the address
> alone
> identifies the quadrant of the city, block and side of the street
> of the
> house in the grid. In both cases, the numbering system from the
> original
> city has been continued far out into the suburbs. Highly logical - and
> disturbs the anarchist in me.
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