Re:German town votes ‘No’ to street names
by mac01021 on Monday February 04, 2019 @10:49AM
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Ok, that makes sense. When your streets are lain out in a grid, everything is easier. But most municipal road systems are far less tractable. I can't imagine easily navigating my hometown, or any other town in New England based on grid coordinates.
There are plenty of cities that have numbered streets, in order.
Some cities have named "mega-blocks" as a third grouping element beyond the street/number and finer grained than the usual neighborhood name, so you have to memorize less stuff.
In short, there are plenty of schemes that give way better result. If you have to look up on a street-name database to find an address, there is little to gain compared with a house-number database.