From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!eisx!pyuxbb!whuxlb!ech Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: Missing street names - (nf) Article-I.D.: whuxlb.871 Posted: Tue Jan 11 16:46:16 1983 Received: Thu Jan 13 04:42:50 1983 #R:ixlpc:-19800:whuxlb:7400013:000:1205 whuxlb!ech Jan 11 16:34:00 1983 Missing street numbers and house numbers are often the result of an attempt to correllate the numbers with some other distance measure, e.g. miles. For example, many towns I have seen reset the house numbers at each block, so that a prefix of the house number is the next cross street. In Queens, NYC, house numbers are often of the hyphenated form sss-nn, where sss is the adjacent cross-street. An even better example is the way most Florida cities are laid out (Florida is even flatter than the legendary Kansas, moreover all streets AND WATERWAYS run in straight lines, north-south or east-west, thanks to the Army Corps of Engineers). I once lived at 688 NW 46 Terrace in Ft. Lauderdale, which places me ~.688 miles north and 4.65 west of the FTL "origin". You would have to "know" that all Terraces run n-s and are on odd .05 mile boundaries (streets run n-s on .1 mile boundaries. courts and avenues correspond to terraces and streets in the east-west direction). Hence you would also expect to find my house between NW 6th and 7th avenues. A nice side-effect of these kinds of numbering schemes is that you rarely have to give anyone directions to anywhere...the address tells all. =Ned=