The rant about those source tags is something you'd better aim at talk-fr... We don't have the answers to those questions.
Jo 2013/3/17 A.Pirard.Papou <a.pirard.pa...@gmail.com> > On 2013-03-17 13:02, Jo wrote : > > Soms staat het aan de ene kant van de straat wel voluit en aan de andere > kant afgekort, afhankelijk van wanneer dat bord geplaatst werd en of het > crisis was op dat moment... Toch is dat geen straat met een dubbele naam. > > Het is niet zo moeilijk voor iemand om te zien dat een volledig geschreven > naam dezelfde is als de afgekorte naam en ook voor computers is het > eenvoudiger om iets te coderen dat afkort, dan iets dat correct > 'expandeert'. > > Is St. Sint of Straat? Is r. rue of ruelle? > > And what is the cost of a "in" and a "ue" minus two "." beside thousands > and thousands of: > "cadastre-dgi-fr source : Direction Générale des Impôts - Cadastre. Mise à > jour : 2012"? > (using "source" and "cadastre" twice) > > BTW: > -does anybody know why they tag that source on each and every node? How > could the nodes have a source different from that of their way? > - and, conversely, how, on the French border, can the source be 2012 for > the way and 2011 for the nodes? > - how is it possible that they split a segment of that border with one > half source 2011 and the other 2012? Did they go on strike while tagging? > - how is it possible that that date changing border is in places a good 20 > m away from my RW source? Does it move a little bit each year unnoticed? > > My strongest argument is having those terms understood by foreigners. > Think of trying to understand what Ул. and Г. mean. > Hence what I understand the least is why dictionaries use abbreviations. > (and why "abbreviation" uses one more letter than "abréviation" ;-) ) > > Have a nice week, > Cheers, > > André. > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > Talk-be@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be > >
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