In New England there is actually quite a bit of "lost" property because the definitions and addresses were relative to features which are now gone. However, addresses are a somewhat different problem or a least an extremely knotty but smaller part of agreeing feature types for describing places.
Josh On Jun 25, 2012, at 2:31 PM, "J. Andrew Rogers" <jar.mail...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Chris Kantarjiev <c...@speedgauge.net> wrote: >> >>> I am not sure there ever was an era of *globally* valid taxonomies. >>> Locally, yes, they would be very useful. For example, would work in the US. >>> But, I am in Northern India right now, and jeebus... would never work given >>> the chaos here. Here is a real address >>> >>> E1/F,<-- house number >>> "Y" Block<-- because the building looks like two Ys from the air >>> [1] >>> River Bank Colony, >>> Near Letter Box<-- seriously, am not making it up >>> City, State, Postcode, etc. >> >> >> You don't have to look to India to find this. The town of Port Clyde, Maine >> doesn't have house numbers - or didn't when I rented a house there some >> years ago. I was staying for a month and wanted to ship a "real" computer, >> and was told to tell FedEx "The white house across and down from the Post >> Office" > > > In the US the lack of addresses is endemic in rural areas. Many people > live on traversable paths that are not even official roads; in the > mountain West these tend to be 19th century mining trails, in other > regions they may have been well-used paths to hunting areas. > > Fortunately, the USGS keeps track of these unofficial roads and paths > so they do exist in a database somewhere and it is usually possible to > get delivery. In addition to the relative addressing from a well-known > location scheme above, many areas have something analogous to the > "Rural Route" model the postal service uses which maintains a local > map of deliverable locations even if those locations are not on a > government sanctioned road. Local knowledge of the transport network. > Even though it is often technically illegal to do so, commonly used > trails are actively maintained by residents so that they are > traversable year around by ordinary vehicles. > > > -- > J. Andrew Rogers > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > Geowanking@geowanking.org > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list Geowanking@geowanking.org http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
