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Richard Rundle wrote:
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In cartography there has been a long tradition of copying and updating
earlier maps (with some notable exceptions) because of the cost of
surveying and plate-making. It would probably be fair to say that the
two big London re-mapping projects in the 1860s (Stanford's Library
Map
and Weller's Dispatch Atlas) tended to set new standards of accuracy.
These days, I suspect that mapmakers generally follow the lead given
by
the Ordnance Survey, especially with regard to spellings of road and
place names.


And the Ordnance Survey should get their information on street names
from
the Local Authorities, who have a statutory function for Street Naming &
Numbering. You can have a lot of sleep-inducing time with this stuff if
you
want to look at British Standard BS7666.

Thank you. I did a Google search on "British Standard BS7666". It
returned some excellent information about UK Mailing Address
structures. I noted the absence of punctuation. However, I didn't
notice anything directly relating to street name sign posting. Maybe I
need to dig a little deeper.

This was great information.


It's more to do with geographic address than postal addresses unfortunately.
In the early days of the standard, the rules on which punctuation could
appear was very harsh. My Council had an issue with Westward Ho!, as the
standard designers had prohibited an exclamation mark as a valid character
in an address. After we had our first two files sent to the national hub
rejected, we managed to get them to "turn a blind eye" before we got our way
and the exclamation mark was permitted in later publications of the
standard.

--
Richard