In France, I believe that distance from town hall is used to pick which end of a street is to be no. 1. But then numbers incrementally follow from there.
Distance is not used to rank each property.
Distance is not used to rank each property.
Here's a counter-example: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/43.5909519,7.1060244/43.5939...
Our road in the _campagne_ has two houses: number 50 (50m from the start of the road) and number 70 (at 70m).