amanset
February 27, 2009, 5:03pm
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Cisco:
Are you under the impression that that’s unique to Europe, amanset? Kenilworth looks downright mathematical compared to the town I grew up in. The city I live in now, that I described in the OP, seems to be the exception here in the US - - not the rule.
No, but it is the most common scenario everywhere in the UK. Even the famous new town Milton Keynes only has a grid system as used in so many US cities in the very centre.
What I am saying is that few, if any, places in the UK - and probably all of Europe - are laid out in a way that a logical system could be found for it. I was just using the place where I grew up as an example.
Alpine
February 28, 2009, 3:55am
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Yes, but mainly that’s because a) it’s a small county, and b) I have personally readdressed or confirmed almost every address in the towns and county.
(It’s cheating because I’m a mapper by profession.)
Does anyone know San Diego? There are a few series of streets there. The trees makes sense: they are in alphabetical order.
But the state series doesn’t make any sense. It’s not alphabetical, geographical, or any other kind of ical.
seodoa:
Houses are in some pattern, but it varies from block to block, so I’d have to get there first before I could tell you exactly. The blocks aren’t too big, though, so it’s never much trouble once you get there.
I have been told many times by many Japanese that the houses are numbered in the order in which they were built, regardless of location.
Now that I think about it, not sure what that implies about when houses are destroyed - by earthquake, fire, or war.