On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:37:33 -0600, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > Or do people here really think everything should be expand to the > fullest.
Abbreviations are bad because they can't be easily automatically expanded. However, it's easy to abbreviate in a renderer when you know what the full word is. Classic example: Abbreviate the word "Street." Ok, now expand the abbreviation "St." > Really, would anyone say: "United States Highway 29". Rather than "U S > Highway 29" or more likely just "U S 29". Everybody calls Martin Luther King, Junior Boulevard "MLK" or "Milk Junior", but that doesn't stop the name from being the long-form. > At least "1st" hasn't been expand to "First", etc. But just wait... Ordinal numbers are not abbreviations. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
