[Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions

[Lord-Castillo, Brett]

They say 'Rue Saint Louis', which is an alternate name for the street (but not the official postal name) or they say 'S T Louis Street'. I think the post office uses the different zip codes to sort things out; but that doesn't help with street routing which can get pretty screwed up depending on your device. People here are actually pretty used to saying "S T Louis" for different uses (for example, my email address). The street signs on St Louis St actually say "Rue St Louis" (with no street abbreviation).

Brett Lord-Castillo
Information Systems Designer/GIS Programmer
St. Louis County Police
Office of Emergency Management
14847 Ladue Bluffs Crossing Drive
Chesterfield, MO 63017

Office: 314-628-5400

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-----Original Message-----
From: andrzej zaborowski [mailto:balrogg at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 12:23 PM
To: Lord-Castillo, Brett
Cc: talk-us at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions

On 8 April 2010 15:48, Lord-Castillo, Brett
<BLord-Castillo at stlouisco.com> 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.

In "1st Community CU Dr" when you read it out, I guess you do say "...
CU Drive".

But the St Louis Street vs. Saint Louis Street? They're pronounced
exactly same way and I'm sure 90% people will write both of them as
"St Louis Street" in rush, are there seriously cases where these are
different addresses?  What do the people living at St Louis St say on
the phone when asked for address?

Cheers
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