[Talk-ca] [Talk-us] "Highway X" and the like as names

[Kevin Farrugia]

Hmm, poking around Ontario I've found some similar cases.  What's done here
is that the relation holds the overarching name (ex: Highway 7), the way
itself is given that name if it's signed as Highway 7, but if the road is
signed as something else it's named using that name (ex: Huron Road) and
sometimes has the highway name in brackets (ex: Line 34 (Highway 8)).  You
can see all 3 types in and around Stratford for Highway 8:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/43.3703/-80.9809.  It seems that it's
based off of the sign in that area.  Verbally people would likely refer to
the road in the rural area as "Highway 8".

And like Jarek said, address and street name aren't necessarily coupled.
People in rural areas will use street name or street reference (Hwy 8) for
addresses but Canada Post seems to figure it out.  I'd say worry about the
street way matching the sign rather than the address range.

Hope that doesn't muddy the waters further,
Kevin

On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 at 14:56, Jherome Miguel <jheromemiguel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> You may also think of Highway 21 in Kneehill County as another example. It
> follows Range Road 235 (or Range Road 23-5) and is signed locally as such,
> but addresses (in the smaller blue signs like the one in the photo) use
> Highway 21. In Red Deer County, both street signs and addresses use Highway
> 21. Such mismatches with local signage and addresses are not uncommon, and
> the situation can vary from one municipality to another, but it seems while
> the house numbers will follow the Dominion system (the first digits usually
> indicating the range or township under the system), if the property is
> accessible from a highway, the road name on the address will be the highway
> number unless it's on a service road (which usually inherits the
> range/township road number, being a realignment of the original since an
> upgrade of a local road to highway will come with limiting direct
> accesses). Some (rural) municipalities would locally name highways with
> range/township road numbers, but others would just post them as "Highway
> X".
> Even complex are highways that do get three names: Highway X, a
> range/township road number, and a special name.
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