[Page Update] Road Names (USA)
The Road Names/USA page currently has guidance to use lowercase cardinal letters encapsulated in single quotes to avoid the letter being expanded to a cardinal direction.
With the new voice Jane these concerns have been eliminated. A cardinal letter is only expanded if it is alone. When it is connected to a hypen such as "CH-S" it will be read as the letter S. Therefore this guidance should be completely removed.
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The opening text of the county section reads
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This has been here for over a year, and was modified last April.Where road names are the same as cardinal directions (N, S, E, W), place the letter designator in single quotes with a lowercase letter (CR-'n' CR-'s' CR-'e' CR-'w') so that the voice prompt will read the letter and not say it as a direction. Double or triple-letter roads with directional letters (e.g. CR-EN, CR-SAL) have not been tested but might be pronounced as if a word.
With the new voice Jane these concerns have been eliminated. A cardinal letter is only expanded if it is alone. When it is connected to a hypen such as "CH-S" it will be read as the letter S. Therefore this guidance should be completely removed.
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The opening text of the county section reads
there should be a hyphen after CR, making it CR-.Text to speech on the client reads CR as "County Road." So "CR-10" is read as "County Road Ten"
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This paragraph contradicts the following ones which state that CH- TR- and TH- are available where applicable. Therefore this paragraph should be removed as well.There is no other TTS abbreviation for county owned roads in any capacity. For these reasons: that county shields may someday be supported (and a named standard makes this easier to implement), and for brevity's sake in turn instructions and map displays, it is suggested (but by no means required) that individual states adopt the CR- standard.
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