On 28 November 2012 14:28, Richard Welty <rwe...@averillpark.net> wrote:
> On 11/28/12 9:23 AM, Peter Dobratz wrote: > >> I think the key word here is abbreviated. In the OSM name, the >> un-abbreviated form >> should be used: name=Fourth Street To record the abbreviated form, you >> could use the following: short_name=4th St As with all abbreviations, >> sometimes they will >> appear on signs and sometimes the full word will be written out (often >> depending on size contstraints of the sign itself). >> > which is ok, but is it documented and do any of the search entities (such > as > Nominatum) actually pay attention to it? > > and if this convention hasn't been followed, is it ok if search engines > fail > to find the streets because the wrong form is used? > > what i'm getting at is that naive users are likely to enter it in either > form, so we > should endeavor to have both forms work reliably. > > If you mapped is as above it would work in nominatim since both name and short_name are supported. Translation of 'Street' => 'St' is supported anyway but 'First' => '1st' isn't because that would require a large multilingual number database to resolve this in the general case. -- Brian
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