[Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions

Richard Welty rwelty at averillpark.net
Thu Apr 8 17:23:46 BST 2010


On 4/8/10 9:48 AM, Lord-Castillo, Brett wrote:
> 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.
>    
i don't think anyone would argue with this. it's why having a bot 
rampage through
"fixing" things is probably a Real Bad Idea unless it's extremely well 
thought out
and comprehensively tested beforehand.

the thing i think most of us are arguing for is in cases where we know that
ST == Street, Rd == Road, Blvd == Boulevard, we should be storing the
full string, and treating abbreviations as a rendering problem. how we get
there is an implementation issue to be resolved. right now, i fix them 
by hand
when editing in josm because the josm validator whines about it.

richard





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