[OSM-talk] Google Maps comparison

[David Earl]

On 11/10/2007 16:01, graham wrote:
> Something my local council has been doing with new signs is 
> systematically removing all the apostrophes. So names like "Monk's 
> Close" become completely ambiguous: it's never possible to tell whether 
> a final s is possessive or plural.  I guess this is just a result of 
> illiteracy, but I've been copying it (even when I remember the real 
> name) because I thought policy is to take the signs as showing the 
> definitive name. Do others do the same?

I always dictate the apostrophe into my dictaphone when I see it, but 
the signs are notoriously inconsistent. I have found numerous examples 
of signs on opposite sides or ends of a street differing in their 
apostrophe-ness, or adjoining variations like "St Johns Road" and "St 
John's Avenue", and I'm sure others have too.

David