[OSM-np] House numbers in Nepal

[bibekshrestha at gmail.com]

Interesting!
Prabhas, there seems to be a logic behind this. If only we can ask someone
the actual way how people do this.
Besides, IMO KTM is the only district where this has been implemented.
Right?

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On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Prabhas Pokharel <
prabhas.pokharel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here are some pictures I took on a walk in Baneshwor:
> http://prabhasp.posterous.com/house-numbers-in-nepal
>
> Houses are definitely ordered, although I'm not sure every single house is
> numbered, right after the other.
> Note, interestingly, the numbers with a / in it. (Like 606/61 Araniko
> Marga). Those are actually not on the street that has the name Araniko
> Marga, but on a Galli that splits off of Araniko Marga (which doesn't have
> a name). All the houses on that galli will be labeled 606/sth.
>
> Its amazingly organized, actually, just not obviously so.
>
> Also, in Kathmandu (and not in Lalitpur), if you look up at the
> electricity poles at intersections, you can see street names, all over the
> city. Don't have pictures of that, unfortunately, but maybe someone
> currently in the city can?
>
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 5:09 AM, bibekshrestha at gmail.com <
> bibekshrestha at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 25 years in Nepal and I have no idea how house numbers look like...
>> Can anyone help how they look like? May be a photograph of the plate.
>>
>> I don't think they are assigned serially in a street like Marg1, Marg2,
>> ... instead they probably are assigned according to who registers when.
>> Help?
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