On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 05:20:47PM -0700, Darrell Fuhriman wrote: >> House numbers with leading zeros? Intriguing, I've never seen that. > > We have a whole section of town (Portland, OR) with them[1]... I > actually pity the post office, who must inevitably deal with people (and > software made by said people) who think that sort of thing isn't > possible and remove them. There are also places, somewhere in rural > Michigan, IIRC, that include letters as an integral part of the house > "number".
In The Netherlands, having letters be part of housenumber isn't at all uncommon. It typically happens if houses are built in previously empty lots (and the lots next to them already have numbers), or if houses are split. When I was still living at my parents place, the house number was 31. But there was so many numbers of the form "13a" that 15 odd years ago, the houses were renumbered. The house number now is 53. Other house numbers in The Netherlands are constructed as "7 bis", or "9 III". > The people who screw this up include Google and other companies that > produce maps and thus should know better... I often get the impression such maps know the house numbers at the ends, and at key intersections, and the other numbers are found by interpolation. Abigail
