On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 11:20 AM Markus <selfishseaho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Dec 2019 at 01:44, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > When that is how the business name is shown, what is our policy for it? > > I thought we had a policy for it, but i can't fine one. It's probably > rather an observation that names in all caps are mapped in title case > except for acronyms. I think this makes sense because it doesn't give > these names more importance than other names in title case. By the > way, newspapers do the same. > did come to mind. I would favor adding the name exactly as it appears in a sign, even including punctuation marks if it's in their sign. For example AT&T. AT&T at one time was an abbreviation for American Telephone & Telegraph but they dropped the full name for AT&T sometime back. It technically isn't an acronym anymore. TCBY (The Countries Best Yogurt) is a yogurt shop that is widely recognized in the US. If you wrote Tcyb, I doubt most people would even recognize it. If written out, The Countries Best Yogurt, people probably would recognize it either. See https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2304474733 for an example. Newspapers have a different reason for changing case and even dropping punctuation marks, readability. OSM is interested in capturing ground truth. The iD editor has a great feature that corrects the name to the official name along with wikidata tags. The name just needs to be in their database. It would be nice if JOSM had a similar feature. Best, Clifford -- @osm_washington www.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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