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Oh wow you have streets with names!? I can see why you're so deep in debt with such frivolties. (/s) Up here in Bulgaria, we did away with using street names fo
by Asooka 9y ago
Oh wow you have streets with names!? I can see why you're so deep in debt with such frivolties. (/s) Up here in Bulgaria, we did away with using street names for (some) addresses back in soviet times. Let me repost an example:
For whatever reason, we decided that naming streets and numbering the buildings on them is too passé, so lots of our cities use District + Number (where the numbers carry no geographic meaning), in parallel with Street + Number, but every building is addressable using only one scheme.
Concrete example with the city of Sofia, Bulgaria - consider these two buildings [1] [2]. They're both next to Vasil Kalchev street. One is a kindergarten, the other is a block of flats. Let's see what the address for each is, if you want to send a letter to them. The kindergarten is, obviously, St. Pimen Zografski street No. 5... well OK, that's the street on the other side of the building, nothing too strange; while the block of flats is zh.k. Dianabad bl. 54. The abbreviations mean literally "residential district Dianabad, residential building number 54". No, the building is not addressable via the street, you cannot send post to that building or locate it on a map via "Vasil Kalchev street, No. X" for any X. There are, in fact, no numbers on Vasil Kalchev street. And the residential building numbers aren't geographically meaningful - directly east of said building 54 is building 53, but directly west of it are buildings 42 and 43. There is no building 44. There are, however, 33, 33A, and 33B. They are just ad-hoc numbers (maybe with letters) that you need to have in a database, like you have the locations of streets and where the numbers on the street are geographically.
[1] https://www.google.bg/maps/place/Kindergarten+49+Radost/@42... https://www.google.bg/maps/place/Kindergarten+49+Radost/@42.....
[2] https://www.google.bg/maps/place/42%C2%B039'53.7%22N+23%C2%B.. https://www.google.bg/maps/place/42%C2%B039'53.7%22N+23%C2%B....