Also in Atlanta, there's N St. I got directions from google and thought I was looking for North St. Man was that a big mistake.
Cheers, Adam On 6/4/09, Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Ian Dees wrote: > >> Its functions are: >> - Strip "St" suffix from grid-named streets (eg. "South 500 West") >> - Collapse multiple spaces into a single space (lots of TIGER) >> - Expand abbreviated directions (eg. "S 500 E" to "South 500 East") >> - Expand abbreviated suffixes ("Rd" -> "Road", "St" -> "Street", etc) >> >> >> - "Strip St.": is that recommended somewhere? It seems silly to remove >> data like that... > > Until you go out to pretty much any city out in the desert or originally > built by Mormons. In such cities, 90%+ of the streets are not named to > begin with, locations are purely Cartesian. The only two streets I know > have a name in Salt Lake City are State Street and Temple Square, and > I'm not sure Temple Square counts (I'd rather not get too close, to be > honest). All the other ways are referred to by address, such as "450 S > 700 E" would mean that the address is located four and a half blocks > south of the Mormon temple on the even side of the street, 7 blocks east > of the temple. > > Interestingly enough, if you navigate to cities that have a lack of > street names, you'll see stuff like "E 2100 S St" in TIGER, even though > this is wrong! > >> - "Collapse spaces": Ok, that makes sense. >> - "Expand abbreviated dirs": This is the one that I have the most >> problems with. In my neighborhood in Minnaepolis, the official names for >> roads actually end in SE. For example, I live on 6th Avenue SE. I've >> seen several different representations of this, but when I ask several >> different mail carriers and some GIS folks at the University there, they >> all said that "SE" is the official name, not "southeast". > > I could be wrong on this, but I've been making an exception for > cardinals myself, using the same logic behind NOT using abbreviations > for everything else. I honestly can't think of any other common > abbreviations that would prevent a > > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
