OSM has the same data. http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/14.4876/121.0193 This is probably a new development, and they had to name the streets after something.
Definitely not 'a new development' See my next edit above.
Somewhere in the Philippines, there are roads named after countries
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Re: Somewhere in the Philippines, there are roads named after countries
#12Ok... What's really suspicious is the alphabetically ordered clusters. It's almost like someone just labeled a bunch of blank streets with a list of nouns. Any comparative maps of the area, preferably local ones produced inside the Philippines, would help explain things a lot. Edit 1: Digging into it further, reveals the area is pretty big... I've rounded up the coordinates, exploring a little. 14.485, 121.023 is pre…
Seems I broke something here, I cant actually edit this any more... is there an edit limit I didn't know about? Kind of annoying I cant go back and fix any format issues now.
Re: Somewhere in the Philippines, there are roads named after countries
#13Ok... What's really suspicious is the alphabetically ordered clusters. It's almost like someone just labeled a bunch of blank streets with a list of nouns. Any comparative maps of the area, preferably local ones produced inside the Philippines, would help explain things a lot. Edit 1: Digging into it further, reveals the area is pretty big... I've rounded up the coordinates, exploring a little. 14.485, 121.023 is pre…
Seems I broke something here, I cant actually edit this any more... is there an edit limit I didn't know about? Kind of annoying I cant go back and fix any format issues now.
There is a time limit for editing.
Yep, is is sometimes a bit frustrating!
Re: Somewhere in the Philippines, there are roads named after countries
#14There's a similar thing in Pittsburgh, where streets are named after locations of battles in the Mexican War. I was a bit confused the first time I saw this.
Re: Somewhere in the Philippines, there are roads named after countries
#15This is not unusual. Streets need names, and people get increasingly creative. I've lived on Saturn ("Saturnus", the name of an appartment building in Duivendrecht, net Amsterdam), there's a street in the center of Amsterdam called Rusland (Russia), there are towns in Netherland called "America" and "Nederland". And then there's towns that have the same name (which is particularly common in the US, I believe).
Re: Somewhere in the Philippines, there are roads named after countries
#16There's a similar thing in Pittsburgh, where streets are named after locations of battles in the Mexican War. I was a bit confused the first time I saw this.
And Pennsylvania stands out in having Indiana University of Pennsylvania and California University of Pennsylvania in its state system.
Re: Somewhere in the Philippines, there are roads named after countries
#17It reminds me of some of the names they have on their Jeepneys. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeepney
When I was there, I saw Jeepneys called "Disneyland" and "McDonald's", etc. Pretty random.
Re: Somewhere in the Philippines, there are roads named after countries
#18Ok... What's really suspicious is the alphabetically ordered clusters. It's almost like someone just labeled a bunch of blank streets with a list of nouns. Any comparative maps of the area, preferably local ones produced inside the Philippines, would help explain things a lot. Edit 1: Digging into it further, reveals the area is pretty big... I've rounded up the coordinates, exploring a little. 14.485, 121.023 is pre…
Some places have historically not named their roads. Then westerners come around and say "this won't do, how will we deliver the mail?" and name them all. I'm guessing it all happened just before WWII or something.
Re: Somewhere in the Philippines, there are roads named after countries
#19In my city too, in my city too :D
Re: Somewhere in the Philippines, there are roads named after countries
#20OSM has the same data. http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/14.4876/121.0193 This is probably a new development, and they had to name the streets after something.
Definitely not 'a new development' See my next edit above.
New real estate development. Not a new trend. This has been going on for a while where I live too, themed clusters and that (not in the Philippines).