On Thu, 9 Nov 2000 20:31:55 Joseph B. Reid wrote:
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>Edmonton, Alberta, has a layout inspired by Cartesian geometry. Street are
>laid out in a regular grid and are numbered consecutively. Streets running
>east and west are called avenues... The first two or three digits of an address on a
>street are the number of the avenue immediately south of it. The first two
>or three digits of an avenue address are the number of the street
>immediately east of it. The last two digits of an address indicate
>position along the block, odd numbers on one side, even numbers on the
>orther side.
So it seems indeed! And if block distances are established as "hard" metric it
becomes easy for anyone to find any place anywhere in town and how far it is to it!
I, personally, LOVE this system! With all due respect to those individuals who have
given their names to streets and all, I can't think of any smarter system to build a
city on than this!
Evidently there is also the downside. Remembering whether the address read 102 Street
or 102 Avenue; whether EW or NS is avenue or street (and I can never remember which is
which... :-( ) and where the counting "starts". But one can certainly find his/her
way around despite these "difficulties" sooooo easily! (I never had to resort to city
maps when going to Edmonton! And the few names of streets that do not follow the
numbering rule are usually very well-known by everyone, like Whitemud Ave, Jasper Ave,
etc.)
Marcus
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