in many places, avenue and street are more or less interchangable. in St Pete Florida, for example, avenues are east-west and streets are north-south; otherwise the terms are interchangable. i've seen this usage elsewhere and imagine it's common.
when mapping, there are two potential tricks that can help. lines generally signal a collector or "higher" road, so tertiary or secondary. look at stop signs. a road where stop signs are infrequent is likely some sort of collector - again, tertiary or secondary. richard On 8/16/17 12:18 PM, John F. Eldredge wrote: > > I don't know about Detroit, but in Nashville, TN, where I live, street > suffixes don't necessarily reflect their importance. My parents lived > for decades on Parthenon Avenue, a very minor residential street. > > On August 16, 2017 10:08:44 AM "Ionut Radu - (p)" > <ionu...@telenav.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> I was looking over residential roads in central area of Detroit and I >> was wondering if some of them should be upgraded to a superior >> function class (e.g. tertiary or secondary). >> >> Lots of them are Avenues and Boulevards with at least two lanes and >> seems to be major collector roads. >> >> I think they were imported from TIGER Roads and some of them need a >> review check. >> -- rwe...@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking - GIS & IT Consulting OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux Java - Web Applications - Search _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
