If you want to see the mother of all street naming trainwrecks, have a look at Hickory, NC. Story goes that sometime back in the '30's, the city fathers/mothers thought they would rationalize street naming. But what makes sense on gridded streets makes an *awful* mnemonic device for wayfinding, especially in the hilly, western piedmont of NC. You also have some really perverse examples of streetnaming, like "19th Ave Pl NW".
Rather than look to paper maps and Google for how they map it, it may be more useful to look at how local E911 services and USPS treat these addresses. There are times when a street type (e.g. Ave, St, Ln, Pl) is part of the name (e.g. 19th Ave Pl NW, where "Ave" is part of the street name) and times when the directional prefix/suffix (e.g. N, S, E W) are part of the street name (e.g. "North Temple"). I think only local knowledge is the way to resolve these issues. SEJ ---- "Wretches, utter wretches, keep your hands from beans." -Empedocles On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 16:55, Richard Welty <rwe...@averillpark.net> wrote: > On 8/13/10 1:27 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: > >> >> Maybe Oregon's just weird, but that *IS* the way our streets are. "NW" >> is a fundamental part of the street name. >> > ditto for St Pete Florida, without the N/S/NE/SE directionals, you're lost. > they're pretty fundamental. the avenues number north and south from > Central Avenue: > > > 5th Avenue N > 4th Avenue N > 3rd Avenue N > 2nd Avenue N > 1st Avenue N > Central Avenue > 1st Avenue S > 2nd Avenue S > 3rd Avenue S > 4th Avenue S > 5th Avenue S > > the N and S labeled versions are completely different, parallel > streets.if you suppress the directionals, you are losing critical > information. > > richard > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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