text: Well, it'd be nicer if there was consistency in specifying whether it's "North" of one street or "South" of another, and a consistent system in whether E/W or N/S comes first. Look at it this way: given 10 lanes, can you predict exactly what their GeoBase "names" will be?
  
  But more to the point, I can come up with a lot of straightforward naming conventions for Toronto - for example numbering east-west as Streets increasing from lake and north-south as Avenues increasing from Yonge Street - but that doesn't actually make those the names.