On 2020-09-08, Martin Gregorie  wrote:

> On Tue, 08 Sep 2020 10:24:19 +0100, NY wrote:
>
>> Numbers are better, because it is blindingly obvious how they should be
>> sorted in increasing order of release. Same as for house numbers versus
>> house names, when you are trying to find a specific house in a street.
>
> Not always - apparently in Tokyo house numbers within a block are
> assigned in the order that the houses were built, which is why all Tokyo
> taxi-drivers use GPS systems. That gem surfaced during the first GPS
> Millennium in 1999.

Other favourites are San Francisco (house numbers start wherever the
street does, so on two adjacent streets that start in different places
the house numbers don't line up), and London (streets change names
every few blocks and the numbers start over each time).

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