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I learned that in Japan, it's quite common for neighbors to have the exact same address, if the entrances fall in the same number zone.
As always, addressing is a story that shows us that all our nice simple abstractions don't suffice. An address is not always street+house number.
I got nerdsniped hard by this. If I can find the data, I might try to replicate the analysis for Germany. I learned that in Japan, it's quite common for neighbors to have the exact same address, if the entrances fall in the same number zone. As always, addressing is a story that shows us that all our nice simple abstractions don't suffice. An address is not always street+house number.
Where we live, you can get the same house number on, e.g. "North 8th St." and "North 8th Rd." (and possibly "North 8th Dr." and maybe "North 8th Pl.") a block or two apart. It's fairly common to have at least two of those. And it's maddening. I'd be curious to know if this situation is similarly common.
Sounds like Queens NY
We were in the west half of a duplex on East 1st Street, so the address was 123W E First St. I called 911 and in the process sent the first responders to 123 W First St. (Everything turned out okay, but response was delayed by at least 10 minutes. I recommended they change the addresses to 123A and 123B instead of East and West. That was denied.)
Where we live, you can get the same house number on, e.g. "North 8th St." and "North 8th Rd." (and possibly "North 8th Dr." and maybe "North 8th Pl.") a block or two apart. It's fairly common to have at least two of those. And it's maddening. I'd be curious to know if this situation is similarly common.
Here's a route that starts on Tramway Vista Loop NE, makes a right onto Tramway Vista Place NE, a left onto Tramway Lane NE, a left onto Tramway Place NE, bears left as it changes names to Tramway Circle NE, (makes a left onto Cedar Hill Road NE, sorry!), makes a left onto Tramway Boulevard NE, then a right onto Tramway Road NE, and finally a left onto Tramway Circle NE.
Many of these also have overlapping address number ranges, but I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader.
https://i.imgur.com/7sKNNIQ.png
For more, try Peachtree in Atlanta.
I grew up in a 149 High Street. About 300m away was another 149 High Street. They both originally belonged to different villages but London's growth had filled in the gaps between the villages. We knew who lived there as it wasn't too infrequent that their post arrived at ours or vice versa.
