[Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions

[Bill Ricker]

One hopes the de-Bot-ing Bot will leave alone areas what weren't botted or
have no "tiger:name_base" tags.
Here in Boston, we have *massgis:way_id*= instead of tiger:* tags, and are
unabbreviated.

Sadly the naming conventions in the so called 'real world' (or the 1:1 scale
map :-) are not well followed and can not be relied upon. Near where we have
"E Street" intersecting  "East First Street", we have quite oddly "West
First Street" **extending past** "East First Street" at an angle, "East
First Street" having crossed the line of E-W demarcation, Dorchester Street,
to make up the slack when the street grid changes alignment to conform to
the land.  "West First Street" continues as "East Second Street"!
http://osm.org/go/ZfIvnO2Y

The other end of Dorchester Street is its intersection with Dorchester
Avenue, more confusion. This is at Andrew Square, which of course is *not*
square since it has 6 ways converging. (In Boston our major squares are not
square, and Circles needn't be circular either, although they probably once
were.)

Dorchester Avenue is colloquially known as Dot Ave, do we have a tag for
that?

-- 
Bill
n1vux at arrl.net bill.n1vux at gmail.com
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