Finally a domain where English is a lot more specific, ruining the joke on us Germans :P Common road/street identifiers here include: - X-Y-Strasse = e.g.

Finally a domain where English is a lot more specific, ruining the joke on us Germans :P Common road/street identifiers here include: - X-Y-Strasse = e.g. "John Smith Street", bigger street - X-Weg = e.g. "Falcon Road", smaller street, probably more rural, but hard to tell - Y-Gasse = e.g. "Market Alley", smaller street, probably more urban, but hard to tell - X-Allee = e.g "Poplar Alley", it has trees on both sides - X-Ring/Bogen = really only circular roads, not so common And of course stuff like "XYZ-Platz" (Place/Square) and when there's water around, "XYZ-Damm" (Dike) I think my point is that 90% use Strasse/Weg/Platz and only 10% combined are all the rest - or I am totally oblivious to the rules, but afaik I've never seen anything like naming them different based on direction or hard criteria for buildings around (exception is "Allee") NB: I used hyphenation in my examples to better distinguish, this is only the correct form for most given names. e.g. it would "Johann-Schmidt-Strasse", but written in one word (e.g. "Falkenweg" for "Falcon Road") and in 2 words for place names, e.g. "Berliner Strasse" for "Berlin Street").