There was a recent story in the UK about a local council dropping apostrophes from road signs because

“All punctuation will be considered but avoided where possible because street names and addresses, when stored in databases, must meet the standards set out in BS7666”

Coincidentally, this pic popped up today, on my photos app ‘remember this’ thing

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/a…

A bit of the Tube Map, showing Barons Court without an apostrophe, and Earl's Court with one