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

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

 In many areas, numbering is based on distance from "center" (often city
hall), regardless of where the street itself starts/ends. Even numbers on
one side of the street, odd on the other, with house numbers tending to
jump by 10s or 20s (possible 10th of a mile). {I'm about 1.5 miles west of
city hall, house number is 1490}

 Overall, the county numbers based on center of Grand Rapids, with
quadrant marker... So just outside of my city limits is a Ford dealer with
a number of 11979 Fulton E (Fulton is the divider for N/S) and it is
adjacent to a bank at 2601 W Main.


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