Re: Types of numerals

Nik Taylor nevesht:
>
>Roger Mills wrote:
>>In southeast Florida (Miami-Lauderdale-Boca-Delray at least) they have a
>>wonderfully confusing system:
>>Numbered Avenues run N-S
>>Numbered Streets run E-W
>>
>>So, "corner of 8th and 8th" is easy enough; but "corner of 8th and 4th" or
>>"5th between 8th and 9th" require clarification.
>
>It's that way in Gainesville, too, further north.  I find it quite sensible
>myself.  As long as you remember to use the words "Avenue" or "Street", it
>makes things wonderfully simple.  You can just do simple math to see how
>far away something is.  If I'm on NW 3rd Avenue and NW 15th street and I
>need to go to NW 6th Avenue and NW 9th street, that's 3 blocks north and 6
>blocks east.  Using names, you have to consult a map to see how far away
>something is.  Using letters, you run out after 26.
>
>It's not like that in Pensacola, in the far northwest, where I came from,
>and when I encountered that system after moving to Gainesville, I
>immediately came to admire it.

In Surrey, British Columbia, Avenues are E-W numbered north from the 49th
parallel and Streets are N-S numbered east from the ocean(approximately).
The blacks are numbered 8 to the miles(which I have heard called "Canadian
blocks"), and intermediate streets are given a letter.  So we have locations
like 128A Street and 98B Avenue. It gets complicated since sometimes the
streets aren't staight, some have names, and often the main number doesn't
exist in a area but the one with a letter does.










--Wayne Chevrier

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