[Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions

Lord-Castillo, Brett BLord-Castillo at stlouisco.com
Thu Apr 8 14:48:37 BST 2010


One issue with using unabbreviated names, is sometimes the abbreviations are part of the official name.
Examples here:
1st Community CU Dr (First Community Credit Union goes to a -different- address)
River City Blvd/River City Casino Blvd; many people think the first is an abbreviation of the former. It isn't, two different streets that will route mail (and traffic) to two different sets of addresses
St Louis Street, which is different from Rue St Louis, which is different from Saint Louis Street and Saint Louis Boulevard, which is still different from The Boulevard St Louis. In each of those cases, the non-type abbreviations are part of the name and expanding the abbreviations can turn them into different streets.



Brett Lord-Castillo
Information Systems Designer/GIS Programmer
St. Louis County Police
Office of Emergency Management
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Chesterfield, MO 63017

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Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:42:42 -0400
From: Matthias Julius <lists at julius-net.net>
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions
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andrzej zaborowski <balrogg at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
>
> I'd like to see them as separate tags, but I'd really like the name=
> tag to remain consistent across the world, i.e. have an unabbreviated
> name in it, that can be passed to something like a text-to-speech
> system without having to keep a list of possible abbreviations for
> every language in the database.  Especially names like "St Park St"
> (State Park Street) or "St Tropez St" (Saint Tropez Street) would be
> difficult to deal with.  Changing from unabbreviated to abbreviated in
> a renderer or another tool is much easier on the other hand, with less
> space for ambiguity.

Yes, this is exactly my view, too.  It is much easier for tools to
abbreviate the string than to expand it without ambiguity.  Because in
the latter case it has to make assumptions.

Matthias



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