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FleetlinePhil wrote: ↑Wed Jun 06, 2018 21:22
Not sure if this has been covered elsewhere? Not an error as such, but does anyone else really dislike the standard Google shortening of "Street" to "St" etc in the case where that is actually the name of the road? The Street is pretty widespread name for the main road in villages in some parts of England, and The Drive is a fairly standard suburban fixture. To seemingly show these as "The Saint" and "The Doctor" has always seemed very odd to me - until I filled in our ESTAs online for our forthcoming trip to the States, and the form automatically changed our contact address from Street to St. Could Google not grant the UK an exception?
This has also been seen in Glastonbury, where one of the main roads out leads to .. Street, and is therefore called Street Road. See here in Streetmap (no, not St.map )
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FleetlinePhil wrote: ↑Wed Jun 06, 2018 21:22Not sure if this has been covered elsewhere? Not an error as such, but does anyone else really dislike the standard Google shortening of "Street" to "St" etc in the case where that is actually the name of the road? The Street is pretty widespread name for the main road in villages in some parts of England, and The Drive is a fairly standard suburban fixture. To seemingly show these as "The Saint" and "The Doctor" has always seemed very odd to me - until I filled in our ESTAs online for our forthcoming trip to the States, and the form automatically changed our contact address from Street to St. Could Google not grant the UK an exception?
The most ridiculous examples of that are the ones like "Great Western Rd" in Glasgow or the "Great North Rd" between London and Edinburgh.
Chris Bertram wrote: ↑Wed Jun 06, 2018 21:25This has also been seen in Glastonbury, where one of the main roads out leads to .. Street, and is therefore called Street Road. See here in Streetmap (no, not St.map )
Similarly, the main north-south road through Gildersome (near Leeds) is called Street Lane, for less obvious reasons.
lefthandedspanner wrote: ↑Wed Jun 06, 2018 22:01Similarly, the main north-south road through Gildersome (near Leeds) is called Street Lane, for less obvious reasons.
There's one of those in north Leeds near Roundhay Park too, for equally obscure reasons.
Wilmslow has 'Holly Rd N' although I don't see that as a problem... And it's not blanket as Parkway in Wilmslow is NOT called 'Pkwy' but maybe that's because they is no name before it.
I'm not a fan of the fact they tend to abbreviate compass directions in street names.
You do get the occasional one that's bizarre or humorous, such as East Bay in Mallaig, which in abbreviation could be confused for a certain online sales portal.
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