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> Houses get built on streets well somebody is doing it... if they bothered to build a whole house, how hard is it to assign a number to it? Sounds like a chao

> Houses get built on streets well somebody is doing it... if they bothered to build a whole house, how hard is it to assign a number to it? Sounds like a chaotic nightmare and not nearly as cute nostalgic as the article tries to make it.

bombcar 4y ago
It's not hard to assign a number to a house, but you need to know a name for the street, and the person who can assign the name has to fill out the paperwork, but then the central government will ask what the @#$@# they are doing adding a street without doing X Y and Z, and so on. What's interesting with Costa Rica is they apparently never formalize; in Mexico a similar thing would occur but at some point actual street names would get added. Then again mail delivery in Mexico at the time was quite sporadic, hardly done at all (companies like the electric company would hand-deliver bills from their own couriers).
Fatnino 4y ago
See the JPL campus in Pasadena. The building numbers are chaotic because they roughly correspond to when the structure was erected and not anything to do with how to get to it.
- bombcar 4y ago
  IIRC Korea or Japan is entirely like this - blocks have names, not streets, and the buildings on the block are numbered in order of when they were built.
  - midoridensha 4y ago
    No, in Japan the blocks have numbers, not names. So an address looks like: <postal code> <prefecture> <city> <district> <num>-<num>-<num>-<apt. num> Or in English style: <num>-<num>-<num> <district> <building name> <apt num> (optional, can also append the apt number to the 3 numbers on the top line) <city> <prefecture> <postal code> The 2nd <num> is the "block", the first is the "chome" which is a division of the district within the city, and the 3rd is the building number. Otherwise, you're correct. The streets have no names (except for big thoroughfares, but these aren't used for addresses anyway), and buildings have numbers, which are usually assigned by when they were built.
    - taejo 4y ago
      Except in Kyoto, where the streets do have names (I'm not sure if they're used in addresses, though). And Mannheim in Germany is kind of Kyoto's mirror image: in a country of named streets, Mannheim has numbered blocks.
      - midoridensha 4y ago
        Yes, apparently Kyoto is weird and does use street names as part of the address. Here's an article about it: https://www.japan-experience.com/plan-your-trip/to-know/traveling-japan/how-to-read-addresses-in-kyoto https://www.japan-experience.com/plan-your-trip/to-know/trav... It looks like Sapporo is similar.

bombcar 4y ago

It's not hard to assign a number to a house, but you need to know a name for the street, and the person who can assign the name has to fill out the paperwork, but then the central government will ask what the @#$@# they are doing adding a street without doing X Y and Z, and so on. What's interesting with Costa Rica is they apparently never formalize; in Mexico a similar thing would occur but at some point actual street names would get added. Then again mail delivery in Mexico at the time was quite sporadic, hardly done at all (companies like the electric company would hand-deliver bills from their own couriers).

Fatnino 4y ago

See the JPL campus in Pasadena. The building numbers are chaotic because they roughly correspond to when the structure was erected and not anything to do with how to get to it.

bombcar 4y ago
IIRC Korea or Japan is entirely like this - blocks have names, not streets, and the buildings on the block are numbered in order of when they were built.
- midoridensha 4y ago
  No, in Japan the blocks have numbers, not names. So an address looks like: <postal code> <prefecture> <city> <district> <num>-<num>-<num>-<apt. num> Or in English style: <num>-<num>-<num> <district> <building name> <apt num> (optional, can also append the apt number to the 3 numbers on the top line) <city> <prefecture> <postal code> The 2nd <num> is the "block", the first is the "chome" which is a division of the district within the city, and the 3rd is the building number. Otherwise, you're correct. The streets have no names (except for big thoroughfares, but these aren't used for addresses anyway), and buildings have numbers, which are usually assigned by when they were built.
  - taejo 4y ago
    Except in Kyoto, where the streets do have names (I'm not sure if they're used in addresses, though). And Mannheim in Germany is kind of Kyoto's mirror image: in a country of named streets, Mannheim has numbered blocks.
    - midoridensha 4y ago
      Yes, apparently Kyoto is weird and does use street names as part of the address. Here's an article about it: https://www.japan-experience.com/plan-your-trip/to-know/traveling-japan/how-to-read-addresses-in-kyoto https://www.japan-experience.com/plan-your-trip/to-know/trav... It looks like Sapporo is similar.