Re: OT: Place name constituents

> Where this causes problems is the duplication.  If you are in the Buckhead
> district of the city of Atlanta, there is a Roswell Road which runs north to
> Roswell (not to be confused with the New Mexican one).  If you are in the
> aforementioned Marietta, there is also a Roswell Road which runs east to
> Roswell.  In the general vicinity of Roswell, before either of them has
> changed names, you therefore have two "Roswell Road"s .  The existence of
> "Lower Roswell Road" and "Old Roswell Road" only contributes to the confusion,
> of course...
Back when I was working in Irvine, Ca. I used always confused people when they said
they were location by the intersection of Main and McArthur by asking "which
one?" The two streets both curve and actually meet twice so someone searching
for that intersection could end up at the wrong one.

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