<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 4, 2007 11:06 AM, Cameron Patrick <<a href="mailto:cameron@patrick.wattle.id.au">cameron@patrick.wattle.id.au</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The heuristics involved in shortening street names can also get quite<br>complex. For example, there are streets near me named "The Avenue" and<br>"The Boulevard". It would look weird to see those written "The Ave" or
<br>"The Blvd" on a map - certainly, no road maps or street signs that I've<br>seen shorten it that way.<br></blockquote></div><br>We've got a "Highway Road" in Leicester. Google maps abbreviates this as "Hwy Rd" even at zooms where there is plenty of space, which is rather unfortunate.
<br><br>One ambigous re-expansion would be "St of X" - is this "Saint of X" or "Street of X?"<br><br>-- <br>Abi<br>