Interesting and maybe useful to me - if UK taxonomy is similar. However:<p>"Avenue (Ave): may have trees on one side, perpendicular to streets"<p>I can't think of a sensible tree/road relationship in which the tree is not perpendicular to the road direction. Does this make sense to anyone else?
Where is this for? I can't think of anywhere I've lived in the northeast (NJ, NY, PA) where this strongly applies.<p>Here's one: I live on a "Drive". It's road built through townhouse complex. Pretty much the exact opposite of what I'd call "long, winding road shaped by natural environments". It connects to a "court", which is another road through the complex that most certainly does not "[end] in a circle or loop – like a plaza or square".<p>Edit: "Road" isn't even on this list!<p>2nd Edit: I've consulted some traffic engineers. I'm genuinely curious to see what they say.
A freeway has no stop lights or stop signs; traffic is free to move along the entire way.<p>An Interstate is a freeway that is part of the Interstate Highway System.
I added a Google Map at zoom 16 or so for customer addresses in the backend of an ecommerce store to help improve deliverability. These addresses are primarily in the USA and I set it to the tilted 'drone' view. This seems to be a world that is always sunny. I am constantly taken aback by the geometry of some of the places that show up in this map view, often a 'crescent' informs you that the address must be correct because it is a 'crescent' that you expect the pin to be on, the shape visually confirms things nicely. 'Crescent' is an obvious clue but you would be surprised with what registers at a glance to confirm the address is likely to be correct.
Then of course there's Avenue Road in Toronto en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenue_Road<p>And the awful Stroad <a href="https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2013/3/4/the-stroad.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2013/3/4/the-stroad.html</a>
I found it amusing they gave this definition:<p>Turnpike (Tpke): usually an expressway with a toll booth<p>but there is no definition of expressway listed.
Roundabout - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCXtcXD17qU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCXtcXD17qU</a><p>Taxiway - is a path for aircraft at an airport connecting runways with aprons, hangars, terminals and other facilities.
I read a page on this quite recently (but can't find it right now); however the definitions were somewhat different - iirc, a road connects two places, a street is perpendicular to a road, avenue is perpendicular to a street.
My childhood home was on "Eighth Street Drive." It's a two block long strip that is about ten feet shy of connecting with Eighth Street, so they slapped a different name on it.