Originally posted by Terra

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Interesting.

I found Ulm's street layout confusing as fuck. Some areas are vaguely sort of grid-based at odd angles, but in most of the city they seem to lay out streets at random, and they often change names a lot. Plus, the addresses are just by street rather than following a citywide system like I'm used to.

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Originally posted by Terra

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Ah, maybe not in Boston

In most of the USA, addresses are based on a grid. Like here in Seattle every 1/16th of a mile (usually) is a "block" and there will be a street. Each block has 100 addresses. So you could have, say, 100, 104, 110, 116, 118, 122 and then a cross street. The next address would be something like 200, not something like 130; i.e., it doesn't just pick up where it leaves off, it starts a new group of 100. Evens and odds are on opposite sides (which is also true in Germany AFAIK).

In Seattle and other cities, some of the streets are numbered accordingly. I live just off of 13th Avenue on a cros street, so my address is in the 1300s. Go another block east and you have 14th Avenue and the numbers are in the 1400s for that block, etc. Thing is, even if a street starts at, say, 23rd Avenue, the addresses still follow the grid and start around 2300 rather than at 1 or 100.

German streets just start every street with 1 and 2 usually, so knowing one street's addresses doesn't tell you what a parallel street's addresses are, necessarily.

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Originally posted by vinnyboiler

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Well I have finally gotten rid of my Christmas avatar after being way to lazy to create another one
What do you guys think?
(I can imagine the underwater song from Banjo Tooie coming from my newest avatar)

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