Primary City / Town Name on MA Street Segments
The current MA standard for city/town names on street segments is to use one of the 351 official names as primary for streets. While this works well in most cases, there are situations (notably Boston’s neighborhoods and the Cape’s villages) where strict adherence to this rule can cause routing problems, and we have deviated from the rule in the past (particularly on the Cape).
To address this issue, the following change is proposed for street segments only (does not apply to Places):
1. Use official name as primary, unless:
2. There is a well-established village/neighborhood/CDP name, with defined boundaries, that is more commonly used (and has been cleared with SMs and listed in the MA wazeo as accepted). This can be used as the primary, with official name as alternate. [Consideration: will official name as alternate still create routing issues?]
3. Even if the boundaries are not well-defined, there is duplication in street name / address between villages (e.g. Harwichport/West Harwich) or a neighborhood vs. city (think Dorchester/Boston), leading to routing issues which could be solved by using village/neighborhood name as primary. Again, clearance by SM required. [But do you re-do an entire neighborhood just to fix one of two problem streets? Or keep more targeted?]
4. Any other oddball cases. Discussion, agreement, and publishing on the MA wazeo required.
Please reply with questions, comments, concerns, etc. Thanks.
mudge42
To address this issue, the following change is proposed for street segments only (does not apply to Places):
1. Use official name as primary, unless:
2. There is a well-established village/neighborhood/CDP name, with defined boundaries, that is more commonly used (and has been cleared with SMs and listed in the MA wazeo as accepted). This can be used as the primary, with official name as alternate. [Consideration: will official name as alternate still create routing issues?]
3. Even if the boundaries are not well-defined, there is duplication in street name / address between villages (e.g. Harwichport/West Harwich) or a neighborhood vs. city (think Dorchester/Boston), leading to routing issues which could be solved by using village/neighborhood name as primary. Again, clearance by SM required. [But do you re-do an entire neighborhood just to fix one of two problem streets? Or keep more targeted?]
4. Any other oddball cases. Discussion, agreement, and publishing on the MA wazeo required.
Please reply with questions, comments, concerns, etc. Thanks.
mudge42
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