Addressing schemes (Re: Perl is worse! (was: Python is Wierd!))

[Andrew Dalke]

Grant Edwards wrote:
>The 100 per block
>scheme is handy because many cities have numbered streets in
>one direction (or sometimes both), and you know that an address
>of 14xx is between 14th Street and 15th Street.  Except in St.
>Paul, where the numbers go up 50 per block.  Usually.

As I recall, In Salt Lake City, Utah, the streets are numbered on
a cartesian grid centered on the LDS Temple.  You can be driving
down the street, not even at a block end, and the numbers change
to the next 100 because that's how far away you are.  Makes for easy
navigation, I'm told.

                    Andrew