You know that is funny but where I used to live we had a tree in the middle of the road. That is how we gave directions to our house. Go past the tree in the road.
I sent this to an engineer buddy of mine that has traveled through about 70 countries in his life and this is what he said about it.
"This isn’t a unique situation – I’ve seen streets paved around big old trees in cities all over the world. Now I wish I’d taken some photos of them – it didn’t ever occur to me to take a photo because it’s so common."