On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Tim Challis <tim.chal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/06/11 20:50, Franc Carter wrote: >> Hi - one for amusements sake >> >> One of my pet peeves is the way that some streets have (over time I >> hope), been chopped up in to separate segments in a way that finding a >> house number without a gps is maddening. >> >> I'm curious - what's the worst case of Dissected Street Syndrome(tm) >> that people have come across ? > > For my money, Parramatta Road in Sydney would have to rank pretty highly > in terms of numbering systems restarting every time a suburb boundary is > crossed (and sometimes even reversing order and counting down again - I > recall there being two properties side-by-side with identical street > numbers [somewhere near Stanmore?])
Good call - I'm actually planning to map the numbers on that soon because it's such a mess. > > Mind you, for sheer municipal perversity, there is a section of Ballina > Road in Lismore that has had at least three numbering schemes applied to > the same houses. ;-) >This is probably in a different category to what you > intended? Yep, I was thinking about things like near where I grew up where there is a 40 foot cliff between one house number and the next. But other road insanity is just as interesting > > Cheers, > Tim. > -- Franc _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
