[OSM-np] House numbers in Nepal

[Prabhas Pokharel]

My impression was that the numbering has been completed in all of kathmandu
mahanagarpalika, but the signing has only been done in kathmandu district.

prabhas pokharel
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On Aug 24, 2012 2:48 PM, "bibekshrestha at gmail.com" <bibekshrestha at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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> Bibek Shrestha
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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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