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SECProto | 3 months ago

You have an inbuilt assumption about the purpose of a street name. Compare it with addresses in Japan [1], where some streets don't even have names. I don't know anything about Pakistan, but i wouldn't be surprised if the street name is solely to differentiate within some small geographic area. Looking at street view[2] from a nearby real estate development supports this

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system

[2] https://maps.app.goo.gl/sfoKSP5yRU41yS8w5

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sphericalkat|3 months ago

This was a bit painful for me when I first moved to Tokyo, since the building I was supposed to move into was newly build, and not on Google Maps yet. I had to ask a very nice old lady where 19番15号 was supposed to be, and it took 20 minutes of us searching to find the place.

First thing I did upon finding it was to add it to the map lol