ELi5 – How are street adresses determined / how do they get numbered?

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ELi5 – How are street adresses determined / how do they get numbered?

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Answer 1

That varies from city to city.

A common system in countries that use the metric system is to use the distance in meters from the beginning of the street, rounded off to the closest even or odd numbers, using even numbers for the right side and odd numbers for the left side of the street.