[Talk-us-massachusetts] Need Help with Street Name Conflicts

[Greg Troxel]

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"Wayne Emerson, Jr. via Talk-us-massachusetts"
<talk-us-massachusetts at openstreetmap.org> writes:

> Are all punctuation marks considered invalid for use in street names?
> Sometimes the street signs have them but the assessors database leaves
> them out.

OSM has the notion of what's on the ground.  I don't think there are any
rules *in OSM* that prohibit punctution.   It's an interesting question
if there is a state law.

The local questions are

  1) what name did the city council or board of selectman assign to the
  street, according to their records and minutes

  2) what is on the street sign

  3) if the above differ, what do the town officials think is right

and then the above drives multiple things which attempt to record
reality but don't really define it

  11) what's in the assessor's database

  12) what's in the MAD.

  13) what's in the massgis roads layer from massdot

but I think all of those are attempting to go back to local question 1.


I would be curious to know the details about your strange case.