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Where I live now there are a few East-West roads and due to the topography, no North-South roads connecting them. All the side roads off these E-W roads were le
by jonah 2y ago
Where I live now there are a few East-West roads and due to the topography, no North-South roads connecting them. All the side roads off these E-W roads were lettered. Problem is, there is an e.g. "I" road off of each E-W road which makes giving people directions or emergency response complicated. So, at some point, some of the side-roads were re-named to be numbers. So now one of the "I"s is 19, etc. Problem is, in AT&Ts system the mappings from landline number to address still uses the old lettering system and apparently cannot be changed - and this feeds into the emergency dispatch system. So, if you live on one of these roads and call 911 on your home phone, they'll have a difficult time finding you and there's a chance they'll go to the right address on the wrong road first... Ugh.
- 13of40 2y agoThe place I live has a fairly simple grid system with numbered avenues that run north-south and numbered streets perpendicular to them. Avenue and Street differentiate those pretty well, and they also add NE/NW/etc. but use it as a prefix for avenues and a suffix for streets, so "NE 123rd Avenue" vs. "123rd Street NE". Short sections are usually called "Place" with the number of the nearest avenue or street, but they copy the suffix/prefix along with the number. As a result you can find for example, "NE 36th Place" and "36th Place NE" about a quarter mile from each other. Since the house number is based on the cross street, you can in theory end up with doppelganger addresses where the only difference is the position of "NE".
- sureIy 2y agoThis is the definition of ”You had ONE job”