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

[john whelan]

I seem to recall possibly Kingston had open data with addresses that
couldn't be used because of the licence.  This would give us a way to add
house numbers to buildings there.

Cheerio John

On Sun, Jan 23, 2022, 4:03 PM Kevin Farrugia, <kevinfarrugia at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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