On 16.08.18 22:34, Andy Mabbett wrote:
"This street has over a half-dozen names, all at once."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/arkhivna-street
Mapped here, but without all those names:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/234767127
Hi Andy,
It may seem surprising to someone who lives in a place which has been
politically and economically stable for quite a while. In lands where
there are ongoing social and political changes streets are named,
renamed, and renamed again. It is hard say to a taxi or ambulance driver
to memorize street names per se in a large city.
But when they change two-three times during lifetime it is becoming
quite a formidable task. To make things worse some people keep using in
conversations the historic street-names, some just old names, and some
the new ones. The case which you write about is an extreme one,
probably, just an irony, since usually there is only one, the latest
street-name plaque.
Nevertheless the system where an address is assigned by the unalterable
law of nature, like the open source OLC [1], looks promising not only
for regions where there are either no street-names, or no streets, but
also for regions with unstable or substandard addresses. And not only
because street-names change, but also because street names and house
numbers signs are not lighted during dark hours, the signs are faded
under the sun light, etc.
I listened recently to a talk "Who belongs in a city?" [2] by OluTimehin
Adegbeye, which provides interesting insights of modern urbanism and
makes more understandable the issues with street-names and addresses (or
they absence) in general.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Location_Code
[2] https://www.ted.com/talks/olutimehin_adegbeye_who_belongs_in_a_city
Best regards,
Oleksiy
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