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

[Wayne Emerson, Jr.]

Well its just a long term trend I have noticed over the years that most 
street signs that used to have periods and apostrophes now have them 
removed. But you can still find a few that still have them. I was just 
wondering if it was an official state policy of standardization. One 
example I can cite is in Braintree, the street sign says B.V. French St 
but the assessors database has B V French St. If it is an official 
policy it might speed up resolving some of these name conflicts.
-Wayne

On 4/5/2019 8:55 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> [The mailinglist seems to ahve broken from/reply-to processing all of a
> sudden]
>
> "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.
>
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