-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've just opened a bug in navit about the pronunciation of UK road numbers when giving directions.
These are the rules I have worked out. Can anyone think of cases where the results of these rules sound wrong? * Always use a long A pronounciation - i.e. rhymes with Hay, not like in cat. * Zeros are usually pronounced "Oh" (although that is possibly a matter of preference) * If the number is less than 100, say it in full - e.g. * A42 => A forty two * M25 => Em twenty five * Otherwise say it digit by digit * A121 => A one two one * A4144 => A four one four four * A4074 => A four oh seven four * but if it ends in zeros, merge those into the last number, so * A420 => A four twenty * A400 => A four hundred * B4000 => Bee four thousand Prefix the number with "the". E.g. "Turn left onto the A four twenty", not just "Turn left onto A four twenty". Some people do pronounce some road names different to the above rules - I've heard the A4074 called "A forty seventy four", for example - but the above rules are probably a good starting point. I'm not sure how A4004 and A4010 are normally pronounced: A four oh oh four? (generated by above, doesn't sound quite right) A four double oh four? A four thousand and 4? (what I would say) A four oh ten? (generated by above, doesn't sound quite right) A four oh one oh? A forty ten? (what I would say) Robert (Jamie) Munro -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuRElUACgkQz+aYVHdncI3vrQCg1g0DJsRXlXckPXGbAdNPrBGB L+0AnA/6BcE40bXDoy2xYHgKGMrCExsL =xS6r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Routing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/routing
