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@j-holt I live on Robin Court, a block away after crossing the cross street it is Robin Place. Getting it correct is important!
SHG
Part of my duties as County Surveyor is to assign house numbers to sites upon application for a building permit. Although we are on a grid system, none of our roads are on cardinal directions (Sierra Nevada foothills). Odd numbers are on one side, even on the other. It becomes challenging with nothing but curved roads, and is based on 90 degree intersections.
This takes much more effort than you would think.
This is where the intersection of GIS principles and practice get into the drivers seat and split the duties of the process.
We had a few really horrible discordant addresses(odd and even on the same side, cardinal directions too…) And in severe cases, the exact same road name, not a variation on opposite sides of a 2211 sqmi county. 40 miles or so apart. That pain is real.
Grinnell, Iowa has strange numbering in that the 700 block of addresses are between 2nd and 3rd avenues, etc.
.These items are straight up mistakes. To me, sloppiness is having a 1000 foot line with 8 pins set on it, 10 different dimensions along it and no linework indicating which dimensions are spanning which segments. That is a garbage map and an embarrassment to the profession, imo.
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