[Openstreetmap] Re: road names

[Frank Mohr]

Lars Aronsson wrote:
> Alex Mauer wrote:
> 
> 
>>Right...but either way, left and right are not very useful.  And which
>>side's left and which is right?
>>
>>If I'm on Foo Street, I don't much care which side #1542 is on, and
>>which side #1565 is on.  Getting to the correct block of the street is
>>sufficient.
>>
>>Which end is the start, which is the end?
> 
> 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.  If a new 
> building has five entrances, they are most typically 13A thru 13E. 
> Furthermore, blocks have names of their own in Sweden, and the 
> property lot is named by the block name and some number that 
> doesn't have anything to do with the street address.

same here in germany
the even/odd numbering is also used if the street has only one side
with houses
those abc numers are sometimes also used for new side streets
(mainly where in city farmer houses had narrow fronts to the street,
but deep parcels into the block. those parcels where later split and
sold seperately)

frank

	

	
		
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