Longest street name in Australia?

[Brendan Terrett]

Hi all,

I'm currently working on a project and we're trying to work out the maximum length of address that our system should be able to handle. I know there's the Diamantina Developmental Road which comes in at 26 characters long, but are there any longer ones than that?

Cheers

[Mark Sanders]

Near me there is a local road called the Carragarmungee Estate Road, which is close at 24 lol

[DonMac]

Hi Brendan,
A few observations.

You seem to be saying that your system never needs to store a foreign address, ever... (If it does, there are much bigger problems than the length).

Are you storing a postal address or a physical address?

Do you actually need to have a maximum length?

Possible Reading:
(https://auspost.com.au/media/documents/australia-post-addressing-standards-1999.pdf says "A maximum of 40 characters in any line in the address, including spaces between words, is acceptable,
i.e. lines must not contain more than 40 characters.")

(http://meteor.aihw.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/429747 says 45 characters for a "road name")

Don

[Sam Laybutt]

I reckon there would be a quite a few 'Place A - Place B Road' names that are longer than 26 characters. 

Coolgardie-Esperance Highway is a fairly well-known name which comes close, as does Koolyanobbing - Southern Cross Road.

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[Brendan Terrett]

Yes, I had seen those docs. Our system needs to handle mainly Aussie addresses, but eventually will need to support New Zealand addresses as well (did a bit of reading on how they don't use suburbs on their mailing addresses, but rather the name of a larger mailing centre). We've decided on a maximum of 40 characters per address line because it's extremely unlikely we'll be dealing with anything longer, but I was just personally curious as to the longest possible address, in terms of character length.

[Darren Hodges]

Princes Highway East/Nar Nar Goon Connection Road.

This could be a contender. 43 letters + 6 spaces and the / slash. So 50 all up. Not much in the way of properties abutting it, but give it time.

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[Alex Csar]

Not much chance of abutting properties given that it's a former freeway - even Cardinia Shire wouldn't approve planning for a subdivision requiring driveways off that road. Besides, by the time development envelops that road it would have been incorporated into an extended O'Shea Road.

Cheers,

Alex.

On Wednesday, 24 August 2016, Darren Hodges <vicra...@gmail.com> wrote:

Princes Highway East/Nar Nar Goon Connection Road.

This could be a contender. 43 letters + 6 spaces and the / slash. So 50 all up. Not much in the way of properties abutting it, but give it time.

On 24/08/2016 8:42 PM, Sam Laybutt wrote:

I reckon there would be a quite a few 'Place A - Place B Road' names that are longer than 26 characters. 

Coolgardie-Esperance Highway is a fairly well-known name which comes close, as does Koolyanobbing - Southern Cross Road.

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Near me there is a local road called the Carragarmungee Estate Road, which is close at 24 lol

On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 2:56:43 PM UTC+10, Brendan Terrett wrote:

Hi all,

I'm currently working on a project and we're trying to work out the maximum length of address that our system should be able to handle. I know there's the Diamantina Developmental Road which comes in at 26 characters long, but are there any longer ones than that?

Cheers

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[Darren Hodges]

I think you might have the wrong interchange. The connection road referred to on the sign in my picture isn't a former freeway. It connects the former highway / freeway with the Nar Nar Goon Road. South of the interchange looks ripe for subdivision.

https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-38.0720022,145.5641332,1404m/data=!3m1!1e3

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[Alex Csar]

Whoops, you're right. Confused it with the Pink Hill interchange.

Cheers,

Alex.

[Omegaville]

Kangaroo Ground-Warrandyte Road = 29 letters

Narre Warren-Cranbourne Road = 25 letters

Murray Valley Highway = 19 letters

18 letters gets you
Tullamarine Freeway
South Eastern Freeway
Great Western Highway

At the other end of the scale, Werribee South has all five letters of K Road.

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[gandjma...@bigpond.com]

GREENSBOROUGH ROAD GREENSBOROUGH

30 letters

[gandjma...@bigpond.com]

I might have stuffed up if you disregard the suburb name.try again

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