Re: [Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions

2010-05-17 Thread Lord-Castillo, Brett
I always go with my classic example (which all of the major online map services currently render incorrectly): North Outer 40 Road (which runs adjacent to and parallel to interstate 64). The name of the road is North Outer 40. The type is Road. It is named this because Interstate 64 used to be

[Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions

2010-05-17 Thread Nathan Edgars II
Lord-Castillo, Brett wrote: But another good one close to us is Old Olive Street Rd and Old Olive St Rd (both official names for different sections of the road). These two streets run parallel to Olive St, Olive Street Rd, and Olive Blvd (all three of these are different roads). So if Old

Re: [Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions

2010-05-17 Thread Dale Puch
If Old Olive Street Rd and Old Olive St Rd are one road, ie. connected and not and a corner. Then things that may explain it are different addresses where they intersect, or if they are in different jurisdictions. Like where two cities meet. But if the addressing continues between the different

Re: [Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions

2010-05-17 Thread Nathan Oliver
I happen to know the answer to this one. I'll save Brett the trouble of replying again, and point you to an earlier explanation in this thread. (Though being so long, I don't blame you for not seeing it the first time around.)

Re: [Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions

2010-05-17 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Hi, On 15 May 2010 05:58, David ``Smith'' vidthe...@gmail.com wrote:  I now believe that it is /also/ acceptable for the name=* tag to specify the full, unabbreviated name -- however, if abbreviation of that name is used commonly and consistently, then that abbreviated form should go in