[OSM-talk] correctly mapping avenues

[Thomas Wood]

On Feb 10, 2008 5:50 AM, Andrew MacKinnon <andrewpmk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
The same generally applies in the UK, although minus boulevard.

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Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)