On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Robin Paulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/6/25 wer-ist-roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I don't like the idea of the short_name tag for common names. The > rendering > > engine should be configured to shorten abbreviations like road, street, > > vägen, gatan, Straße or what ever by itself. This is much more sufficient > > then adding the tags one by one. That gives everyone the chance to choose > for > > them selfs if they like to shorten a name or not. This is especially > > important when you can shorten more then one thing in one name. For > example > > Sankt Ingbert Straße could be shortened: > ...... > > > > I believe that the rendering engine should be responsible for shorting > names > > i think he was referring to the bits that can't be shortened > automatically, for instance shortening "Karangahape Road" (in > auckland) to "K' Road" as it's also known > > or shortening "Durham" of "Durham Lane East" (also akl) to "Dur" > (because the street's very short, and we can't fit all the full name > in) by hand, and letting software rules shorten Lane to Ln and East to > E. > The other problem is that shortening rules which work for one street (or region) won't necessarily work in another. As "wer-ist-roger" mentioned, Straße could be shortened to Str., which might be okay in some areas (or for certain streets) but not for others. Without a hint, the renderers (or other data consumers) won't know if a given shortening rule is okay to apply. Karl
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