>>Fwiw, in many countries street names are entirely commemorative with no directional meaning, and house numbers generally proceed sequentially from 1 to whatever with no association with distance or blocks. So an address like 11211 John Galt would mean there are at least 11211 addresses on that very long street.
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>My house number is 5755.
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>There are 9 houses on my street (gravel road actually).
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>Go figure.


I lived in a City nearby Buenos Aires called La Plata and it has a system of numbering and layout of streets that I really loved, this is the description in Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Plata


Rocha decided to erect a new city to host the provincial government institutions and the planned university. Urban planner Pedro Benoit designed a city layout based on a rationalist conception of urban centers. The city has the shape of a square with a central park and two main diagonal avenues, north-south and east-west. (In addition, there are numerous other shorter diagonals.) This design is copied in a self-similar manner in small blocks of six by six blocks in length. Every six blocks, one finds a small park or square. Other than the diagonals, all streets are on a rectangular grid, and are numbered consecutively. Thus, La Plata is nicknamed "la ciudad de las diagonales" ("city of diagonals"). It is also called "la ciudad de los tilos" ("city of tilia (linden trees)") because of the large number of linden trees lining many streets and squares.

The city design and its buildings are said to possess a strong Freemason symbolism. This is said to be a consequence of both Rocha and Benoit being Freemasons.

The designs for the government buildings were chosen in an international architectural competition. Thus, the Governor Palace was designed by Italians, City Hall by Germans, etc.


This is the google maps view of the city:

http://maps.google.ca/?ie=UTF8&ll=-34.923519,-57.954082&spn=0.096272,0.219555&t=h&z=13