[brianbreslin]

There is an excellent TED talk by Derek Sivers on this issue and he uses Tokyo as an example, as it confused the early google maps engineers.

http://sivers.org/jaddr

[doxcf434]

It's amusing since it's sort of like a .9 release of city planning that had some scaling issues, where as everyone else started at 1.0 to 2.0 and named their streets, and laid them out on grids. ;-)