Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: OT Date: 20 Aug 2026 22:12:56 GMT Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <18cc1576469d353e$143557$916528$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <115spe5$ar9e$2@dont-email.me> <18cc57d1b90cd090$163871$704772$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <115vhbg$16o12$1@dont-email.me> <115vmn1$18mrp$1@dont-email.me> <115vqf4$1a385$1@dont-email.me> <11653nv.12s4.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> <11656kh$307ud$1@dont-email.me> <1167cqv.t78.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net +EwdoI0vSMk1ud+btUXB2gy6GtgeptgHZnO4Xhg9ptdevY68cK Cancel-Lock: sha1:BEdjshm3TS2H8ShNq5e7gx3ytTo= sha256:kdBlX7ci2KcSM8oUpUv84MM8m77myixBZHxu07VqrmU= User-Agent: Pan/0.165 (Kostiantynivka) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:720739 comp.os.linux.misc:90245 On Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:26:15 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > The street we live on is a one-block segment, terminated by a school at > each end. On the other side of one of the schools the street continues > for another block. It took a while for Google Maps to get that second > segment properly into its database. From time to time I would see a > delivery van stopped outside our house with a confused driver trying to > figure out why the house numbers didn't match up. I helped more than > one such driver on his way. There are a number of historical reasons including dueling developers but one section of the city is at a 45 degree angle to the general north/south orientation. That resulted in what became the main drag also being misaligned, followed by further chaotic development. That's resulted in several streets with one or more segments that don't connect to each other. Getting from one chunk to the other can be a problem so you really need to know which piece has the address you're looking for, GPSs have improved matters. 25 years ago most addresses were 'geocoded'. Basically you know a segment of Maple St is X feet long and has the ranges from 300 to 399, hopefully even and odd addresses on alternate sides but that's not guaranteed. Which side they're on is also not guaranteed. Anyway, subtract about 5% from each end to account for the intersections, set back from the center line, and divide. Oila, a coordinate usually in a State Plane Coordinate System projection since that's a lot nicer than messing with spherical trig. Worked for years...