Re: CHAT: Directions

* Nik Taylor (fortytwo@gdn.net) [991213 00:16]:
> Barry Garcia wrote:
> > I tend to use both street names and land marks. Especially if I'm going to
> > a place i've never been, I ask that people give me a hint as to what
> > landmarks there are in the area.
>
> I only use street names.  Here in Gainesville, all of our street names
> are numbered, with the exception of University Avenue and Main Street.
> So, one avenue up from University is Northwest/Northeast 1st Avenue, and
> so one.  For me, a very logical system, since just looking at an address
> tells you exactly where it is relative to you without needing to know
> the names of the streets.  Plus, you know how many blocks it is from
> where you are.  I'm at the intersection of 3rd avenue and 15th street,
> so my friends who live at 10th and 10th are, as a quick bit of
> arithmetic will tell me, 12 blocks away, that is (10-3)+(15-10)=7+5=12
I guess Gainesville is laid out in a grid-pattern, then. Is this
block-system used in any non-grid-cities? Non-grid-cities are better in
cold climates as the grid-pattern gives the wind a boost, makes the city
colder and windier than it could (ought to) be. What works by the
Mediterranean Sea doesn't cut it twenty below freezing :) Thanks to certain
Rome-loving city-planners, several cities in Norway and Sweden have been
"ruined" this way by being gridded.


tal.
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