Perhaps nobody ever writes NW as 'north-west', but I expect that
nobody ever pronounces it as 'enn double-yew' either. Speech
applications may require the name in pronounceable and unabbreviated
form. So there is certainly a case for having that in the map.
Whether it should be in the 'name' tag
Am 28. März 2012 13:46 schrieb Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com:
Perhaps nobody ever writes NW as 'north-west', but I expect that
nobody ever pronounces it as 'enn double-yew' either. Speech
applications may require the name in pronounceable and unabbreviated
form. So there is certainly a case for
Hi
User chdr (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/chdr) seems to be running a script
to automatically replace street name abbreviations with the full word.
so 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW becomes 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest. Which
is not the way anyone ever writes street names here in DC.
IMHO, here in the US we have the USPS which has published standardized
street naming conventions specifically using the abbreviations. It
would seem to me that these official street names are what should
stick and the expansions of them should not be happening. Not to
mention how much more
On 23/03/2012 13:47, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote:
On 3/23/2012 8:36 AM, Mikel Maron wrote:
User chdr (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/chdr) seems to be
running a script to automatically replace street name abbreviations
with the full word.
so 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW becomes 1600
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org wrote:
On 23/03/2012 13:47, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote:
On 3/23/2012 8:36 AM, Mikel Maron wrote:
User chdr (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/chdr) seems to be running a
script to automatically replace street name
On 3/23/2012 9:04 AM, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
On 23/03/2012 13:47, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote:
On 3/23/2012 8:36 AM, Mikel Maron wrote:
User chdr (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/chdr) seems to be
running a script to automatically replace street name abbreviations
with the full word.
On 23/03/12 21:04, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
On 23/03/2012 13:47, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote:
On 3/23/2012 8:36 AM, Mikel Maron wrote:
User chdr (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/chdr) seems to be
running a script to automatically replace street name abbreviations
with the full word.
so
On 3/23/2012 8:36 AM, Mikel Maron wrote:
User chdr (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/chdr) seems to be running a
script to automatically replace street name abbreviations with the full
word.
They don't look like mass automated edits to me - these are smaller
quantities of changes made via
Tagging with abbreviated names is tagging for the renderer. The database should
be as unambiguous as possible, and the renderer should apply local abbreviation
conventions.
This is not the way anyone ever writes street names here in DC, you say. But
it's the way people in DC pronounce it,
Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
I'm new to this problem, but those possible strategies spring to my mind:
- Record only the abbreviated name and let the user expand it using his
favourite rules if he wants.
- Record only the canonical expanded name and let the user abbreviate it
using his favourite
On 23/03/12 12:36, Mikel Maron wrote:
User chdr (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/chdr) seems to be running a
script to automatically replace street name abbreviations with the full
word.
so 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW becomes 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest.
Which is not the way anyone ever
On 3/23/2012 9:40 AM, Tom Hughes wrote:
On 23/03/12 12:36, Mikel Maron wrote:
User chdr (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/chdr) seems to be running a
script to automatically replace street name abbreviations with the full
word.
so 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW becomes 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
On 23/03/2012 13:14, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote:
USPS: 521 Waterman Ln SE
Full: 521 Waterman Lane SouthEast
But I've never, ever written it in the full form and even the
city-supplied street sign shows Waterman Ln.
I just looked up a couple of US cities in a (US) encyclopaedia I
When I'm editing and area with abbreviated names (usually untouched
TIGER) I will manually expand them because I agree with the OSM wiki's
take on things [0]. For most (all?) uses other than rendering text on
maps, the full expansion makes more sense than the abbreviation.
Granted, I would rarely
Lynn wrote:
my address is:
USPS: 521 Waterman Ln SE
Full: 521 Waterman Lane SouthEast
But I've never, ever written it in the full form and even the
city-supplied street sign shows Waterman Ln.
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GBword1=%22waterman+ln%22word2=%22waterman+lane%22
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi
User chdr (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/chdr) seems to be running a
script to automatically replace street name abbreviations with the full
word.
so 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW becomes 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
On 3/23/2012 11:00 AM, Kay Drangmeister wrote:
Lynn wrote:
my address is:
USPS: 521 Waterman Ln SE
Full: 521 Waterman Lane SouthEast
But I've never, ever written it in the full form and even the
city-supplied street sign shows Waterman Ln.
-Original Message-
From: AJ Ashton [mailto:aj.ash...@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] automated abbreviation changes?!
Its much easier for tools to automatically abbreviate words than the
other way around. (We've done automatic abbreviations for the latest
MapBox map [1].) I
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 5:36 AM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote:
User chdr (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/chdr) seems to be running a
script to automatically replace street name abbreviations with the full
word.
so 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW becomes 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
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