On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 2:53 AM, Richard Finegold <[email protected]> wrote: > 1) Do the street signs have the text "County Road" in them? (Any photos?) > 2) Do residential and business postal addresses include "County Road"?
Very good questions... after looking around a bit it seems that this could be an Indiana-specific problem. County roads here are labeled in a grid system around that county's origin point (usually a city center). So, "CR E 500 S" is the eastern half of an east-west road that's 5 miles south of the city center. Signs would say "500 South" along the road. (You know your coordinates based on the intersecting road.) A resident living about 3.5 mi. east of the meridian might write their address as "351 East 500 South". Addresses like "351 E CR 500 S" are also acceptable, although the words "County Road" seem to be used more often when speaking about the road itself. TIGER is very inconsistent and sometimes inaccurate, and you'll see their errors propagated to other map vendors. I don't know if there's one format that would fit all use cases. Here's an alternate source: http://www.cohp.org/in/notes/road_names.html This is somewhat related to the question of whether the directional prefix is part of the house number or street name. -- Eric Jiang, DoubleMap Suite 300W | 748 E. Bates Street | Indianapolis, IN 46202 www.doublemap.com | Office +1(855) 463-6655 _______________________________________________ Imports-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us
