road naming: townland boundaries for back roads
What do we all think about dropping the practice of naming back roads after the townlands they pass through?
As all editors know, it takes a long time to work out townland boundaries when naming back roads.
One idea is to mark most back roads as having no name (or just Lxxxx if the L-number is known) and just to work out the townland name and use that for back roads that join a main road.
Another idea would be to leave *all* backroads unnamed.
So, ideas please: we could do:
++David \ davidg666
[edit: swapped two words and removed one where I was typing faster than I could think ]
As all editors know, it takes a long time to work out townland boundaries when naming back roads.
One idea is to mark most back roads as having no name (or just Lxxxx if the L-number is known) and just to work out the townland name and use that for back roads that join a main road.
Another idea would be to leave *all* backroads unnamed.
So, ideas please: we could do:
- continue with the current practice: name all all back roads after the townlands they pass through.
- mark all back roads that don't have a name of their own as unnamed (this is common in mainland Britain).
- give back roads that join a main road (Nxx, Rxxx or primary street with a name) a name that is the same as the townland they are in at the point at which they leave the main road.
++David \ davidg666
[edit: swapped two words and removed one where I was typing faster than I could think ]
Re: road naming: townland boundaries for back roads