On Feb 9, 2008 8:38 PM, Robin Paulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/02/2008, Martin Trautmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
