[OSM-talk] correctly mapping avenues

Andrew MacKinnon andrewpmk at gmail.com
Sun Feb 10 05:50:23 GMT 2008


On Feb 9, 2008 8:38 PM, Robin Paulson <robin.paulson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/02/2008, Martin Trautmann <traut at gmx.de> wrote:
> > wiseLYNX wrote:
> > > There is even an
> > > italian expression, "viale alberato" which specifically describes an
> > > avenue with tree lines..
> >
> > Could an avenue exist without tree lines?
>
> not in english - it explicitly means a road with trees. although there
> are plenty of roads in aus/nz called avenues, with no trees.....damn
> colonials, mangling the language....

In Canada and the US, "Avenue" is usually meaningless. Sometimes
Avenue is exclusively used to refer to roads that go in a certain
direction (like north/south in New York City) but in Toronto Canada,
roads of all types are arbitrarily called "street", "avenue",
"boulevard", "drive", etc. with no rhyme or reason. It definitely has
nothing to do whether there are trees in the middle.

Perhaps this is true in the UK but it definitely isn't true in Canada or the US.




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