On 10 Dec 2008, at 16:41, Matias D'Ambrosio wrote:
On Wednesday 10 December 2008 12:04:13 you wrote:Hmm, strange country you live in if houses are 1 metre wide, houses here are usually 10 metres wide. And each side of the street has even or odd numbers, although unusual (I can't think of any such street at this moment) it'sIn your country, perhaps. In my country, that's EXACTLY what the address is. The address is the street and distance from the street's starting point, in metres.What happens if two houses are built facing each other on opposite sides of the street? Wouldn't they get assigned the same number? Or does someone arbitrarily decide which is closer and increase or decrease one of the numbers by 1?possible to have them mixed.
South Bridge in Edinburgh has the numbers run up one side, then back down the other. I have come across some residential streets that are numbered all the way around. It's very rare around here for houses to be numbered based on the end of the road. What happens when you extend that end of the road?
Each house has an assigned number, which I think can be chosen by the owner (I don't know exactly when it's chosen, andwhether it can be changed, or how easily), that number is within the rangethe house occupies.What's also important, is the usage. It is very common to say "Alem Avenue 1200" to refer to a corner or the block face that has the range 1200-1299. Using "Alem Avenue and San Juan Street" is unusual unless both are well known streets. Each city block is 100 metres by 100 metres, so counting blocks is helpful if there are no signs on the corners and houses don't have numbers on the front (or they are not easily visible from a car), which is not uncommon,in fact I used this method of finding a house just last week. Mighty convenient, let me tell you :)
I find it very strange that you city blocks are so consistently 100 metres by 100 metres. In my experience they are some random size. Consistent block sizes and grid road layouts are just so strange. It's trunk and branch cul-de-sacs that are the foray of the planners.
Shaun
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