+cachew nut Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 Could be a money maker. Albania's mission impossible: find a street address Quote Link to comment
+wimseyguy Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 Sheesh, tha't even a bigger mess than this system we encountered on a recent visit to Florence. Florence's address system has a split personality. Private homes, some offices, and hotels are numbered in black (or blue), while businesses, shops, and restaurants are numbered independently in red. This means that 1, 2, 3 (black) addresses march up the block numerically oblivious to their 1r, 2r, 3r (red) neighbors. You might find the doorways on one side of a street numbered: 1r, 2r, 3r, 1, 4r, 2, 3, 5r . . . Florence keeps proclaiming that it's busily renumbering the whole city without the color system -- plain 1, 3, 5 on one side, 2, 4, 6 on the other -- and will release the new standard soon, but no one is quite sure when. Conservative Florentines who don't want their addresses to change have been helping to hold up the process. This is all compounded by the fact that the color codes occur only in the centro storico and other older sections of town; outlying districts didn't bother with the codes and use the international standard system common in the United States. Quote Link to comment
+Eric K Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 You think they could just name the streets 1st st, 2nd st, 3rd st... but I guess that's why I'm not a polotician. Quote Link to comment
WH Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 Lets just dump the current address system and replace it with GPS coordinates. We all know thats how the truly sophisticated people navigate anyways Quote Link to comment
+sept1c_tank Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 Albania is classified as "an emerging democracy." It must be difficult to verify registered voters. But the country is only about the size of Maryland, so why not give everybody the same address, kind of like a dormitory. Shouldn't be too hard to sort it out. Quote Link to comment
Pantalaimon Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 Yay! I have access to the off-topic forum! Oh. Wait a minute... Quote Link to comment
+geoSquid Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 I worked in Caracas, VE for a while. The centre square mile or so of the city doesn't have numbers. Addresses read like: The Banco del Caribe building near the intersection of Simon Bolivar and Colombo, or "fouth black door south of Espagna on Liberacion" Surprisingly, FedEx can deliver to these sorts of addresses. The newer parts of Caracas (i.e. most of the city) have normalish addresses. Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 Reminds me of the local reservation. They don't want you to know where they live. Not even so the school bus can pick up their kids. Quote Link to comment
koz Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 Albania is classified as "an emerging democracy." It must be difficult to verify registered voters. But the country is only about the size of Maryland, so why not give everybody the same address, kind of like a dormitory. Shouldn't be too hard to sort it out. we talking albania or alabama here? Quote Link to comment
+nittany dave Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 we talking albania or alabama here? I was thinking Elbonia (from Dilbert). Quote Link to comment
+NightPilot Posted October 19, 2004 Share Posted October 19, 2004 we talking albania or alabama here? Is there a difference? Quote Link to comment
Captain Chaoss Posted October 19, 2004 Share Posted October 19, 2004 we talking albania or alabama here? Is there a difference? i think in Alabama, a chair fight is the ACCEPTED way of solving political disputes. Quote Link to comment
+cachew nut Posted October 22, 2004 Author Share Posted October 22, 2004 (edited) Sheesh, tha't even a bigger mess than this system we encountered on a recent visit to Florence. Florence's address system has a split personality. Private homes, some offices, and hotels are numbered in black (or blue), while businesses, shops, and restaurants are numbered independently in red. This means that 1, 2, 3 (black) addresses march up the block numerically oblivious to their 1r, 2r, 3r (red) neighbors. You might find the doorways on one side of a street numbered: 1r, 2r, 3r, 1, 4r, 2, 3, 5r . . . Florence keeps proclaiming that it's busily renumbering the whole city without the color system -- plain 1, 3, 5 on one side, 2, 4, 6 on the other -- and will release the new standard soon, but no one is quite sure when. Conservative Florentines who don't want their addresses to change have been helping to hold up the process. This is all compounded by the fact that the color codes occur only in the centro storico and other older sections of town; outlying districts didn't bother with the codes and use the international standard system common in the United States. Yep, I remember that color thing about Florence. In Venice, the same street seemed to change names at every block. Luckily, the maps showed church squares every few blocks, so when you came into a square you would compare the name of the church to the map and adjust your trip accordingly. I'm not sure how the addressing worked in Venice, but getting around with the right map wasn't too bad. Edited October 22, 2004 by cachew nut Quote Link to comment
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