[Talk-ca] Is Edmonton broken? (NW)

[Matthew Vavrek]

Edmonton is just weird, not broken. As far as I know, Edmonton was 
running out of street numbers as the city grew south and east (people 
don't like negative street numbers, oddly enough), so they started using 
a quadrant naming system. However, this means that virtually the entire 
city falls within the NW quadrant, except for a number of new 
subdivisions. Few people actually use the NW/NE/SE/SW bits as of yet, 
but they will likely have to start as the city continues to grow.
Cheers
Matthew

Richard Weait wrote:
> Where does Edmonton divide between NE / NW / SE / SW ?
>
> The _vast_ majority of the roads I see on our map are listed as
> something Street NW,  
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> Surely the division should be something lose to equal quarters, No?  
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> Would a Northern Alberta expert please have a look at this?
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> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.4309&lon=-113.374&zoom=14&layers=B000FTF
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> Calgary is also quartered, but we appear to have Calgary labelled
> correctly.  
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> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.05161&lon=-114.05835&zoom=15&layers=B000FTF
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