> In some places the streets are very short. This makes it difficult to > show > the name of the street in full. However, for most street names there > exist a > short form. In swedish most names are of the form Foogatan (Foo street) or > Barvägen (Bar road). These are often shortened to Foog. or Barv. in > commercial maps. > > It would be nice if we could tag this in OSM with something like: > > name=Foovägen > name:sh=Foov (or name:short) >
name:sh is not a good idea, because there could be a language whose code is "sh". How about short_name? This could also be localised like short_name:en, short_name:sv etc. I'm already using short_name for abbreviations of building names on the Bayreuth university campus. > *and* that the renderers would take this into account where it is > applicable. > The whole scheme is irrelevant if the renderers don't use it. > > An alternative would be that the renderers have a table of common > abbreviations like: > > road: rd > street: str > vägen: v (swedish) > gatan: g (swedish) > Straße: str (german) > ...etc > > Is this feasible or will it remain just a pipe dream? I find that always > using > the long names make the maps more difficult to use in practice. > > -Inge > Regards, Marc -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
