On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:09:55 +0200, Abigail <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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".
It really gets annoying when companies buy adjecent lots and combine
them:
3e Willem de Zwijgerstraat III 3a - 7 ROOD
or
Laan 1940-1945 111-12
> > 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
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