Had the thought pop into my head randomly the other day. I’m assuming this is a town planning thing, but is there any sort of a guideline for making these decisions?
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The roads where I live (I live kind of rurally in Sweden) use a system called *Metertalsadress* (it probably has a fancier name in English, but a quick Google didn’t allow me to find it.) that is based on three facts,
– if there is more than one entry point on the road, you start counting at the entry point closest to the city/village/whatever that named the postal district OR if that gets ridiculous, starting from north and going south or starting from the west and going east.
– the house number, multiplied by ten, tells you how many metres to drive to find the house
– if the number is odd, the house is on the left side of the road. If the number is even, the house will be on the right side of the road.
I think I’ve read somewhere that it’s a common thing that even numbers are on the right side of the road, in most numbering systems. But not all of them. But the problem with cities is that a) there is always some exception to a good rule and b) in a very old city, it’s not at all unlikely that what was originally and historically the central city is something that has gradually changed over centuries.
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