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Re: US Road System (was Re: Ldraw cannon)
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Sat, 14 Nov 1998 01:39:23 GMT
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Steve Bliss wrote:
> Once upon a time, Paulo Caparica Junior <paulocjunior@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > De Bengel wrote:
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> > > On Mon, 9 Nov 1998 17:26:16 GMT, mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller)
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> > > wrote:
> > > > Yes well how about:
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> > > > 1558 Mass Ave #41
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> > > Could have been worse: 1558 51st St. #41
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> > One thing that drives me crazy at USA is the street with a 0 in the
> > midle, things like
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> > 1558 N 51st St. #41
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> > And of course there is:
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> > 1558 S 51st St. #41
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> Some towns really have fun with this. In one place I lived, all roads
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> are numbered (not named). Roads which run East-West are called
> streets. Roads which run North-South are called avenues. The
> numbering system starts with 1 at a central point, and the numbers
> increase in every direction. So there are possibly four different
> roads with the same number:
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> 44th Street North
> 44th Street South
> 44th Avenue West
> 44th Avenue East
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> To make it even worse, since the house numbers also increase in both
> directions, the *other* cardinal direction must be included in a
> complete address:
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> 4444 East 44th Street North
> 4444 West 44th Street North
> etc., etc.
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> Of course, this is just a verbose way of coding ordered pairs of
> cartesian coordinates. But it seems ugly and confusing.
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> Steve
Living there would drive me crazy for sure! I remember that in Atlanta
,where all the streets are called peachtree. There are one of the
peachtrees lane, street, road, whatever that E and W where parallel
streets
a block away from each other. Of course I had a map, be it take some
time
for me to search for the other street.
Paulo
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| Paulo Caparica Junior <paulocjunior@hotmail.com> wrote (...) In NZ we have a rule that the main street in every town is called Queen St. From memory something like 1 in 10 towns do this. And nearly as many use High St instead. Moz (25 years ago, 14-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | US Road System (was Re: Ldraw cannon)
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| (...) Some towns really have fun with this. In one place I lived, all roads are numbered (not named). Roads which run East-West are called streets. Roads which run North-South are called avenues. The numbering system starts with 1 at a central (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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