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Re:UK Postal Address Oddities by mytailorisrich on Monday October 09, 2023 @03:52PM (#37824655)
In France, I believe that distance from town hall is used to pick which end of a street is to be no. 1. But then numbers incrementally follow from there.

Distance is not used to rank each property.

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Re:UK Postal Address Oddities by tnjm on Monday October 09, 2023 @08:51PM (#37827367)
In built-up areas, the numbering is typically sequential. In rural areas, houses are numbered based on distance from the start of the road.

Our road in the _campagne_ has two houses: number 50 (50m from the start of the road) and number 70 (at 70m).

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Re:UK Postal Address Oddities by Rygian on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @03:44AM (#37829497)
> Distance is not used to rank each property.

Here's a counter-example: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/43.5909519,7.1060244/43.5939...

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