Not a biggie, of course, but I'm curious and it's saturday :)... why does BC sometimes capitalize only the first letter of US highway abbreviations? It looks a bit weird, IMO.
Example: "Continue on Ca-210 E towards San Bernardino"
Yep, that's what I think too, yet it's hard to imagine road names ared stored in the database exactly as shown in this other example:
"Take exit 59 to the right onto Ut-56/200 North"
I suspect BC is putting the road name through a Proper capitalization routine, which is fine for "Main St", but not for a road identified only by an abbreviation.
Anyhow, nobody is going to get lost because of this but it does look like it merits a look see.
I suspect BC is putting the road name through a Proper capitalization routine, which is fine for "Main St", but not for a road identified only by an abbreviation.
Yes, that's what I was hinting at. Doing it the way I proposed depends on the data being fairly reliably formatted. The "Proper Capitalization" routine normalizes messy data.
I grew up in Pennsylvania in the 1940s and 1950s and there were a number of acceptable and correct (whatever that may mean) ways to shorten the state's name, to wit: Penna., Pa., PENN, and PA. The latter "PA" was an invention of the U.S. Postal Service and originally was acceptable only when used to address a letter. I seem to remember Pa being used a lot for the state route prefix. Of course "US" was always used for the national routes, e.g., US-30, US-202
