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Aktobe to standardize names of 1,081 streets on digital maps

Address data will be aligned with official street signs in the state language.

Aktobe will review the names of 1,081 streets on 2GIS and Yandex Maps and correct discrepancies. Monitoring found issues with state-language spelling and incomplete names.

Author: Робот Source: Akimat of Aktobe Region, Kazakhstan

A street sign in Aktobe beside a city map displayed on a phone
Aktobe is working to align digital map street names with official signs. Illustrative photo. Photo: Esetok / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Aktobe will review the names of 1,081 streets on digital maps and correct any discrepancies. The work aims to align address data in electronic mapping services with official street signs in the state language.

Altynai Yunisova, head of the Aktobe Region Department for the Development of Languages, met with representatives of 2GIS and Yandex Maps. They discussed standardizing street names, correcting spelling errors and displaying the full names of historical figures.

The meeting included the results of monitoring data on the two mapping services. Alongside positive changes, the review found issues with state-language spelling, the completeness of names and their consistency with official street signs.

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Aktobe currently has 1,081 streets. Work to align names on digital maps with their official forms will continue.

The aim is to ensure street names appear correctly both on official signs and on the digital maps residents use every day. This is intended to help residents and visitors find addresses more quickly and easily.

Translated from Russian using artificial intelligence. Source: Akimat of Aktobe Region, Kazakhstan

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