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> My favourite "real world fails to fit the model we've come up with" is Carmel-by-the-Sea, which has many streets that have no addresses You might be surprise
by parennoob 11y ago
> My favourite "real world fails to fit the model we've come up with" is Carmel-by-the-Sea, which has many streets that have no addresses
You might be surprised to learn that in India, all addresses are more or less like this. This is due to the fact that we never ended up with the standardised street numbers and names that a lot of other countries have, and road naming is a highly political thing in India, so a lot of people call roads by colloquial names.
A typical address in India goes
- House / Building Name (a lot of bungalows in India have names)
- Locality
- Near [Landmark]
- Possibly another Landmark
- Road Name
- City Name
- Post Code
- State Name
- India
- twic 11y agoQuite a bit of the Arab world is like this too. Some colleagues of mine were working with a Middle Eastern courier firm recently, and it's quite a headache.
- david-given 11y agoI grew up in rural Scotland with an address which was: - House name - Community name - County - SCOTLAND Just the other day I found myself explaining this to a cow orker some ten years younger than me, and they couldn't believe it. "But how did the postman know where the house was without a number?" "They just knew." "What, all of them?" "Yup. Each postman knew their own area." "But how did the post get to that postman? There's no postcode!" "People in the sorting office read the addresses..." We also had a three-digit phone number. (One of the outer isles used to have one-digit phone numbers.)