From: Michael T. <mic...@gm...> - 2013-02-09 11:41:19
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Gawd, I hate it when I hit send before I finish. :( One of the things I was going to point out to the group was that we make assumptions about what the location tells us but we should be very careful. Here in the USA, we like to think of ourselves as super-logical and organized but there are historical quirks that would make a cartographer want to start drinking. There's a town here in the New England area named Rockport, Mass. that had a really entertaining street numbering scheme. (I'd love to have seen how the E911 and GPS folks handled this one.) ((I am under the impression that this *may* have been changed since I was last there but I don't know for sure.)) If you drive up the street (its a one way), the houses on the left are on a different street name than the houses on the right. The numbers on the houses on the upper part of the street were assigned by the home owner as they felt like it. Some of the homes were old so they had the lower numbers and you'd see things like (not exact, just example) the house numbers you'd pass, in a straight line, side-by-side, would be like this #8, #57, #33, #9, #6, #6a, #8b It was a riot for the longest time to try to find someone there. So, we have to keep track of these screwy numbers and names too. (In those entries, I'd do something like: USA, Mass, Essex, Rockport, (Historical), #6) Just thought I'd share. |