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This is a tangent, but: "That's particularly useful in places where street numbers are otherwise unavailable or places such as Japan and South Korea where stre
by sanxiyn 12y ago
This is a tangent, but:
"That's particularly useful in places where street numbers are otherwise unavailable or places such as Japan and South Korea where streets are rarely numbered in chronological order but in other ways such as the order in which they were constructed, a system that makes many buildings impossibly hard to find, even for locals."
South Korea finished renumbering streets in 2011 and after two and a half years of trial completely switched to the new system in January 2014.
- trollian 12y agoThe sentence doesn't make sense. Japan and (apparently formerly) South Korea use chronological rather than geographical ordering.
- sanxiyn 12y agoYeah, obviously "chronological order" in the original sentence is a mistake for "geographical order".
- Kiro 12y ago> order in which they were constructed Seems very impractical. What's the benefit?
- eghri 12y agoIt prevents any rework from having to renumber the buildings if things are being built up heavily over time. Kind of like an unsorted array vs a sorted array. The unsorted one is a pain to search, but you can just slap things on to end without a worry.
- pedrocr 12y agoThe sane solution for that is to just use "number of meters since start of street" as the building number. That way you can always fit new buildings between existing ones and get the bonus that if you are at building 100 and want to get to 200 you know that's 100 meters away. Usually you'd also do even numbers on one side of the street and odd on the other to make it easy to know which side to look at. This means you can't have doors closer than 2 meters apart which is usually ok. If you really need more doors then 100A and 100B are the usual hack.