Wiki updating consensus 1: city names
[I plan to update some parts of the Ireland section of the wiki in the near future - but before I do that, I hope to discuss the changes first in case there's any disagreement, since some of the changes I propose haven't been covered before and I think different editors amongst have different ways of doing things]
First: naming cities, towns, villages and city suburbs:
++David \ davidg666
First: naming cities, towns, villages and city suburbs:
- In general, only assign a city name to road segments that are inside a city/town/village. Rural roads that are outside a city/town/village should have “None” checked, even if they are near (but not in) a city/town/village.
- For large cities, divide into suburbs and give only the suburb name to streets in each suburb. Don’t make the city name part of the suburb name - so have (for example) “Clontarf”, not “Clontarf (Dublin)”
- Give a couple of streets in the exact centre of a city that has named suburbs the same name as that city so that city itself can be navigated to.
- Where more than one city/town/village exists with the same name, give the unadorned name to the larger one, and append the county name in brackets to the smaller one. For example: “Dungarvan” and “Dungarvan (Kilkenny)”.
- Only assign a city name to road segments within an actual city/town/village/suburb - rural roads should have “None” checked for the city name and not the townland name.
- When deciding if a small settlement is big enough to have a name, see if it’s got its own post office or if there are name signs on its approach roads. Use the name seen on these signs as the settlement name, and use the location of the sign as the edge of the named area.
++David \ davidg666
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