In Bangkok, “street names” are entire city quarters and houses are numbered chronologically by when they were built.
So it isn’t unusual to have 237 be right next to 1550.
238 could be 2 miles away.
Complicated. There’s the city, and it’ll be broken into neighborhoods with their own names. Then that will be broken down into blocks (approximately) with their own numbers. Then each building has its own number within the block. So you can only find a place based on its address (assuming no online mapping) if you already know approximately where it is.
Before Google maps became a big thing, taxi drivers would have massive books full of neighborhood maps which they would refer to when you told them the address you wanted to go to.
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In Bangkok, “street names” are entire city quarters and houses are numbered chronologically by when they were built.
So it isn’t unusual to have 237 be right next to 1550.
238 could be 2 miles away.
That sounds even more chaotic than the Japanese system.
they have a system?
What’s that?
Complicated. There’s the city, and it’ll be broken into neighborhoods with their own names. Then that will be broken down into blocks (approximately) with their own numbers. Then each building has its own number within the block. So you can only find a place based on its address (assuming no online mapping) if you already know approximately where it is.
Before Google maps became a big thing, taxi drivers would have massive books full of neighborhood maps which they would refer to when you told them the address you wanted to go to.
At that point, why not write latitude and longitude and be done with it?
Yep, when we visited most of the houses had little names they would use for their address. Villa Bonita 200m S of xxx
Iceland, draw a map on it and the right name and that’s all you really need.