Ted Percival wrote: > I'm not sure why the logic is inverted. While it is common notation to > abbreviate the cardinal directions, the street signs actually say "300 > West", and I would prefer voice navigation software to say "Turn on > Three hundred West" Rather than "Turn on Three Hundred Double-U", for > instance. I think the usual principles apply: it's easy enough for > renderers to abbreviate full words when it's appropriate, and routing > software to understand how users might abbreviate their input. > Maintaining unnecessary ambiguity in the database should be avoided.
Well, you hit the nail on the head, I figured expanding cardinals is about as trivial like creating abbreviations for particular words automatically as needed. If the general consensus is that we should expand those, I will.
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