Street Naming Systems
Discussions focus on challenges with street names, addressing conventions, and navigation in various global cities, contrasting numbered grid systems with named streets and highlighting issues like missing labels or inconsistent layouts.
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Not everywhere has convenient street address systems!
Yeah, this isn't the USA with it's perpendicular grid of streets, named 1st street, 2nd street etc
I'm just a little bit disturbed by the absence in some cases of the street names. Is this intentional ?
Wow the streets and avenues are especially bad, they are borderline unparseable if you're looking for things around the area rather than the roads themselves, which is usually my use case.
Yes, of course! Sorry for that. Being European I sometimes envy not only those neat grid layouts, but also the numbered streets, because from the numbering you can infer the position of the target. But "Saint Joseph's street" could be at the next corner or on the other side of town, you cannot know...
Sounds like you've never been given an address. Or know of any famous streets. Or have never been curious about the world around you.From your example -- If I'm in Seattle and I see "Pike Street" I might wonder if the city's #1 tourist attraction, the Pike Place Market is nearby.Or I could just let Google decide what's best for me like a good, compliant income bag.
Sure, but this still mean western society should encode streets, not coordinates
Addresses change a lot more often than gps coordinates. Streets get renamed, removed, or renumbered.
Which street? Asking for a friend.
Country borders can change, city divisions can change. Street names can change, and streets can disappear.Use GPS coordinates instead :D