On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 08:17:26PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
The US is highly variable and both styles exist. Around me, road names often change at the town border, and if they don't the addresses usually reset.
Right. The resetting of the house numbers while keeping the road name was the confusing part for me (as a tourist who does not know or notice the town borders, in areas where the towns have grown together).
For extra confusion, roads are named for the town they go to, so you can be on Lexington Road in Waltham and after crossing be on Waltham Road in Lexington.
That sounds like standard practice in Europe too.
Agreed that this doesn't cause mkgmap/garmin problems.
Yes. Nevertheless, it is good to know how things are done in different parts of the world, to avoid choosing a bad design. Marko