[Talk-GB] OS Opendata names copied in Harrow

Ed Avis eda at waniasset.com
Wed May 18 13:55:17 BST 2011


Steve Doerr <doerr.stephen at ...> writes:

>It may be because I am a 
>linguist, but I cannot bring myself to declare such forms as ST JOHN'S 
>ROAD to be incorrect when they make much more sense grammatically.

...unless they are St Andrews Road or St Albans Road.

Often if you look hard enough you can see an older street sign with an
apostrophe, before the local authority became illiterate and stopped bothering
with them.  I take that as enough reason to tag the correct name.

-- 
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>




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