Roads Renamed as Streets

Street names are becoming a source of confusion in rapidly growing Visalia, California: as the city expands, street suffixes change from rural “roads” to urban “streets,” “avenues” and “boulevards” in conformance with Visalia’s conventions. Which leads, as you might expect, to quite a bit of confusion, especially when maps can’t keep up with the changes — unsurprising in rapid-growth areas, as we’ve learned.

Posted on Sunday, November 4, 2007 at 8:51 AM
Categories: Roads

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This is related to the problems cartographers in India are having regarding streets that aren’t named in the first place. One of your earlier posts touches on the problems online mapping services such as Yahoo might have there.

I found further some further discussion of this, which I’ve posted to here.

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