On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 07:37:38 +0200
"A. Dumas"  wrote:

> On 08-09-2020 23:10, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> > 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),
>
> Huh? *Of course* numbering starts where the street starts. I had never

 Numbering ? What is this numbering ? Next you'll be telling me you
have names for your streets with signs to tell you what they are.

> heard of the alternative, I suppose it comes with grid street plans,
> which are awful & car centric & dehumanising.

 Well one alternative is the rural Irish approach, roads are mostly
unnamed instead small regions are named (but there are no signs to tell you
the names). Houses are sometimes named but mostly not, the postman has
to know who lives where because twenty or thirty houses on two or three
streets all have the same address[1]. Couriers insist on phone numbers
before accepting packages. This venerable system has recently grown
postcodes ... every delivery point has a unique postcode so you need a map
of them to find anything.

[1] And yes banks and the like do require proof of address.

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