> I'm confused. Do you mean "meaningless identifiers"? They look > meaningless to me. House numbers in North America (and in France > also, it seems) have a few bits of meaning: the least-significant > (numeric) bit tells you which side of the street the house is on, > and it's often the case that you can deduce the cross street > from the house number. Similarly with the others.
Until, that is, when some smart <beep> decides to renumber everybody by counting the distance in meters from the start of the street to the house. We've got a house that went from an odd to an even number this way. Not to mention people wondering why the neighbor of 650 SomeStreet was at 615... YA