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US Road System (was Re: Ldraw cannon)
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Wed, 11 Nov 1998 13:46:42 GMT
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Once upon a time, Paulo Caparica Junior <paulocjunior@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> De Bengel wrote:
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> > On Mon, 9 Nov 1998 17:26:16 GMT, mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller)
> > 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
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 point, and the numbers
increase in every direction. So there are possibly four different
roads with the same number:
44th Street North
44th Street South
44th Avenue West
44th Avenue East
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:
4444 East 44th Street North
4444 West 44th Street North
etc., etc.
Of course, this is just a verbose way of coding ordered pairs of
cartesian coordinates. But it seems ugly and confusing.
Steve
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 | | Re: US Road System (was Re: Ldraw cannon)
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| (...) <snip> (...) In a town in Holland (Zoetermeer), they made a new part where all the roads are color-coded. You have a blue quadrant, a red quadrant, etc. So the road between the blue and red is called the 'blue-red street'. And within the green (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | Re: US Road System (was Re: Ldraw cannon)
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| (...) 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. (...) (26 years ago, 14-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) One thing that drives me crazy at USA is the street with a 0 in the midle, things like 1558 N 51st St. #41 And of course there is: 1558 S 51st St. #41 (...) (26 years ago, 11-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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