[Openstreetmap] Re: road names

[nick at hogweed.org]

> This will be very different in different countries.  In the U.S.,
> house No. 1565 is house 65 within block #15, and ten blocks away
> from #515.  In fact, 1565 is an unlikely number because that would
> mean block 15 has at least 65 buildings/entrances.
>
> In Sweden, numbers start at 1 near the city center and increase as
> you get farther out, without respect to the blocks.  Odd numbers
> are on one side, and even numbers on the other, sometimes very
> much out of synch: No. 17 might be opposite to No. 68, if No.
> 12-58 were opposite to a large park or a railroad.  If house 56
> was replaced by two new ones, they become 56A and 56B. 

Sounds exactly like the UK system.

Nick