Street names

[Tomisimo]

In another thread Sosia asked about Wisteria Lane, if it is a common street name, and I got to thinking. Streets in the US are often named after flowers, trees, and sometimes famous people (local businesspeople, human rights leaders etc). Often in a city, streets going one way (eg. east-west) will have names, and the streets going the other direction (north-south) will be numbered.

In Mexico, numbered streets are almost non-existant AFAIK, and street names are almost always named after past presidents and political/historical figures, or significant dates in Mexican history.

Some common Mexican street names:

Presidents and Political figures
José María Morelos
Lázaro Cárdenas
Miguel Hidalgo
Pino Suárez
Venustiano Carranza
Vicente Guerrero
Luis Ponce
Álvaro Obregón
Benito Juárez
Emiliano Zapata
Francisco I Madero

Almost every city or town in Mexico has a Morelos, Juárez, Hidalgo etc street.

Common Dates
1 de mayo
5 de mayo
16 de septiembre
7 de febrero
21 de marzo
20 de noviembre

It's interesting to note with the streets that are named after dates that they are feminine. If you're talking about Benito Juárez' birthday, you'd say el 21(veintiuno) de marzo, but if you're talking about the street, you la 21(veintiuna) de marzo.

So... what about other countries? What are the street-naming conventions?