• socsa@piefed.social
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    3 days ago

    A “block” is not a fixed measurement, it is the distance between cross streets in a grid. They have blocks in Europe and people definitely understand the concept in my experience.

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      3 days ago

      Its also significantly worse for Manhattan because depending on if you turn 90 degrees its like 4.5 times the distance.

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      3 days ago

      I understand the concept of a block (even if they don’t really exist in my city), but that doesn’t really give me an idea of the actual distance, so it’s a pretty useless information to me. Using proper standard metrics makes much more sense.

    • thessnake03@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      North South blocks in Manhattan are fairly uniform, and a standard measurement there. Just hard to get across to someone that doesn’t know