On 30.08.2016 17:03, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
... Tell me what's not affordable about spray-painting letters
on the sides of buildings?
...
If it were as simple as this. An address, currently a street name and
house number, is to be present in a property title, so it should be
unambiguous and recognized legally. Besides, streets could be renamed
from time to time due to changing political moods. Letters painted with
a cheap paint fade quickly under the sun light. There is an issue of
illegal construction, - there are cities where about half of an urban
agglomeration may be an illegal slum. And so on and so forth. So it is
an expensive system which requires maintenance and enforcing.
Though you may be right, - maybe it is not possible to invent anything
better than a system of addresses based on street names and house
numbers. May be it is the final system, where the human ingenuity
reached the Wall of Physical Laws, and no other progress is possible.
I just saw this envelope with the map, and it was something new and
original.
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