House numbers with leading zeros? Intriguing, I've never seen that.
We have a whole section of town (Portland, OR) with them[1]... I
actually pity the post office, who must inevitably deal with people
(and software made by said people) who think that sort of thing isn't
possible and
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 05:20:47PM -0700, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
House numbers with leading zeros? Intriguing, I've never seen that.
We have a whole section of town (Portland, OR) with them[1]... I
actually pity the post office, who must inevitably deal with people (and
software made by
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:09:55 +0200, Abigail abig...@abigail.be wrote:
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 05:20:47PM -0700, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
House numbers with leading zeros? Intriguing, I've never seen that.
We have a whole section of town (Portland, OR) with them[1]... I
actually pity
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
It really gets annoying when companies buy adjecent lots and combine
them:
3e Willem de Zwijgerstraat III 3a - 7 ROOD
or
Laan 1940-1945 111-12
And then there was this address I recently sent something to which went
something like
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 03:16:13AM -0700, Ann Barcomb wrote:
And then there was this address I recently sent something to which went
something like this:
10 metros este de la esquina Norteste del parque comunal de vargas
araya, casa a mano derecha, casa de madera de color blanco y
My brother once tried to explain the address numbering system in Japan
to me, when he was living in Tokyo. I'm not sure if I ever understood
it.
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Ann Barcomb a...@domaintje.com wrote:
And then there was this address I recently sent something to which went
something like this:
10 metros este de la esquina Norteste del parque comunal de vargas
araya, casa a mano derecha, casa de madera de
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On 10/11/09 9:40 AM, Chris Devers wrote:
I've seen addresses like this in rural Alabama, where a house is
outside the boundaries of the nearest town, so the address ends up
being something like 8.1 miles north of Mobile city line on Mobile
County
Combining a few replies into one...
Benjamin Reed wrote:
My dad's house is in the county in Wisconsin and it uses
coordinates, even.
The format is W ### S __ Drive.
That's pretty much all of Utah (although the creation of more
curvilinear suburban streets in recent decades
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
Most of Japan isn't much different than anywhere in the US or Europe (IIRC).
Except Tokyo. Most streets in Tokyo don't have names. Addresses are just
nested geographies. So an address like 1-2-3 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-Ku,
Tokyo means: In Tokyo,
On 11 Oct 2009, at 18:15, Ann Barcomb wrote:
I think the conclusion is that there are many different forms of
addressing,
and most software doesn't get it right. Heck, many US webforms can't
even handle anything other than a US zipcode for the postcode section.
That's fairly typical.
James Laver wrote:
On 11 Oct 2009, at 18:15, Ann Barcomb wrote:
I think the conclusion is that there are many different forms of
addressing,
and most software doesn't get it right. Heck, many US webforms can't
even handle anything other than a US zipcode for the postcode section.
=01234
Tough to do if you're coming from a CSV
d.
Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
=01234
Tough to do if you're coming from a CSV
d.
That is what you puts in your CSV if you wants Excel to understand what
you meant.
That is what you puts in your CSV if you wants Excel to understand
what
you meant.
Yes, but if *I* had made the CSV, it wouldn't be a problem. :-P The
hate is in not letting me define what the column is *before* I import
it. Access, for instance, is not so presumptive (shockingly, since
On 2009-10-10, at 19:04, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
=01234
Tough to do if you're coming from a CSV
That's what you put in a CSV, so you get =01234 into the cell.
Now let's hear some hate for broken CSV generators and parsers.
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009, Roger Burton West wrote:
We can't accept that credit card number because it has spaces in it.
Please re-enter it without spaces.
http://unixwiz.net/ndos-shame.html
Tony.
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f.anthony.n.finch d...@dotat.at http://dotat.at/
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Anything and everything which provides an unsorted and/or unsortable
list of anything.
I mean really. This problem was solved before computers. The amount of
suck required for a modern machine to be so much worse than its
replacement is unimaginable.
Open Office I'm especially looking at you
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