Potential Jotting: Addresses Jeff Zeitlin (09 Sep 2018 23:53 UTC)
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Gottfried Neuner
(10 Sep 2018 08:23 UTC)
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David Shaw
(10 Sep 2018 11:36 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Potential Jotting: Addresses
Bruce Johnson
(10 Sep 2018 15:56 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Potential Jotting: Addresses
Jeff Zeitlin
(10 Sep 2018 23:08 UTC)
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Greg Caires
(10 Sep 2018 23:58 UTC)
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Cian Witherspoon
(11 Sep 2018 00:27 UTC)
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Richard Aiken
(11 Sep 2018 05:27 UTC)
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Gottfried Neuner
(11 Sep 2018 08:45 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Potential Jotting: Addresses
Gottfried Neuner
(11 Sep 2018 08:45 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Potential Jotting: Addresses
Evyn MacDude
(16 Sep 2018 01:19 UTC)
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Not "forms of address", e.g., 'My Lord', 'Your Most Excellent Scholarhood', et cetera, but "My office is at ...". (N.B. Comments, please, especially if you know of other forms!) Most of us are used to addresses of the form "123 Any Street", with a fairly common variation of "Jedestraße 123". However, there are other ways of defining where your office - or house, or store, or whatever - is. If, in your worldbuilding, you use one of those other ways, you have another hook to hang some potential trouble for your PCs... All of the systems below are used in the real world. I even tell you where I found it to be used. In Nicaragua, addresses aren't numbered. Streets don't even have to be named. Instead, the address is given by reference from a well-known landmark location: "Iglesia Nuestra Señora de la Noche, 3 cuadras al Sud, 1 cuadra 10 varas al Este" (In English: "Church of Our Lady of the Evening, three blocks south, one block ten varas east" [one vara is about 83cm]). Pretty much anything can be the starting landmark - churches, parks, important municipal buildings, gas stations... even a mile (well, kilometer) mark along a highway. Sometimes, a landmark building gets torn down. The addresses relative to that landmark only change with the addition of "Donde Fue" at the beginning, meaning "Where was", or where the landmark used to be: "Donde fue Igl. N.S.de la Noche, 3 c. Sud, 1 c. 10 v. Este". If you are standing at the southeast corner of the block that the Temple is located in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, you are standing at the zero/zero point for the entire county. Addresses in the county are all pure coordinates measured from that point: "1355 N 700 W" is seven blocks west of that corner, and between thirteen and fourteen blocks north. The unit of measurement is both unspecified and irrelevant; one block is an increment of 100. In India, buildings aren't generally numbered, just named, or are within a named development. Sometimes, this form of address is seen in the UK, as well: "Cholmondeley House, Whimmeshire High Street". Sometimes, the address is on a 'dependent street', where the actual street of location isn't unique, and you need to specify the main street that it's dependent from: "Cholmondeley House, Thamesford Lane, Whimmeshire High Street" In Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, USA, there are no numbered addresses; the only purpose for numbering would have been postal or package delivery, both of which are handled via a central post office. Within the village, "addresses" are given as "Third house on the east side of Torres St., green trim, driftwood fence", or perhaps by the name on a signboard in front of the house (and it's considered bad luck to change the names on such signs): "Hansel" or "Sea Urchin", for example. In most of the "Western" world, when you are looking for an address, the street is important and gets named; the blocks are just the spaces between the streets. In Japan, the block is important, and gets a designation; streets are the gaps between blocks, and don't generally get names (some important ones do). An address in Japan would be by municipality, then neighborhood, then a subarea name and number, block number, and building number; building numbers within a block are assigned in the order that the building were constructed. "Tokyo-to, Chuo-ku, Yaesu 1-5-3". When giving directions, landmarks and cross streets (if named) might be given. ®Traveller is a registered trademark of Far Future Enterprises, 1977-2018. Use of the trademark in this notice and in the referenced materials is not intended to infringe or devalue the trademark. -- Jeff Zeitlin, Editor Freelance Traveller The Electronic Fan-Supported Traveller® Resource xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com http://www.freelancetraveller.com Freelance Traveller extends its thanks to the following enterprises for hosting services: onCloud/CyberWeb Enterprises (http://www.oncloud.io) The Traveller Downport (http://www.downport.com)