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RBWells@lemmy.world 1 week agoMay I ask a question about German addresses? Here, they go up and up as you move out from the center of town - we have a zero/zero, so to speak, at one corner, and if you live at 100 N, you are one block north of center. So if you are 100 blocks north of center you live at 10000. I lived at 1500 E on 15th St I’d be 15 blocks away in two directions from that central point.
Our German addresses are always like 6, never a big number. How?
Most American cities use a distance or block system.
Most European cities use the odd/even system. Each plot increase by two on either side, so one side of the road has 1,3,5… and the other has 2,4,6…
If a plot is later subdivided or more housses are built on a plot, it’s new addresses will get post-fixed letters a,b,c,d…
Canada works this way too, interestingly enough.
The town where I work doesn’t have blocks, it’s just a fucking mess. Which is annoying on account of I deliver mail and knowing where I am is important.
varyingExpertise@feddit.org 1 week ago
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I have marked all homes that belong to one street in one color. The address is Town, Road, House number. So, Hünsborn, Steimelstraße 32, for example.
RBWells@lemmy.world 1 week ago
But are none of the streets long enough to end up with a 1867, or whatever?
Zabjam@feddit.org 1 week ago
Had to Google, the highest number in Germany is apparently 1501 in a street in Cologn. But yes, you are right, streets are usually not long enough to reach such high numbers.