[Tagging] Block names (vs street names) in Brasilia

[Alex Barth]

Interesting. Mannheim uses for a block named C2:

area=yes
name=C2

On Apr 24, 2012, at 2:57 AM, Michael Krämer wrote:

> Am 24. April 2012 00:56 schrieb Alex Barth <alex at mapbox.com>:
> - Any previous discussions or existing practices I should be reading up on? Brasilia is not the only place where block names are used instead of street names. To my knowledge, other examples are some parts of Sofia/Bulgaria (I see street names here [5]) and Japan (not sure where to look).
> 
> The city center of Mannheim in Germany also uses blocks although there are some named streets (example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.487123&lon=8.464508&zoom=18&layers=M). 
> 
> Michael
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