2011/7/27 Kay Drangmeister <k...@drangmeister.net>: > Am 27.07.2011, 12:01 Uhr, schrieb Richard Fairhurst <rich...@systemed.net>: >> >> every native English speaker would >> pronunce St in that context as 'saint'. That, to me, is a pretty >> conclusive >> argument that we should tag "St". > > Alas, and in German "St" abbreviates "Sankt" (which also means by chance > Saint). > So you can conclusively say for each place if it's the english or the german > Abbreviation? Not to mention other countries with multiple languages.
In Italian "S." can mean "San", "Sant'" and "Santa", "Ss." can mean "Santi" and "Santissimo"/"Santissima"/"Santissimi"/"Santissime" because you have to care for gender, grammatical number and if the name starts with a vowel. I guess dealing automatically with this is not completely impossible but it certainly requires some effort (not to mention if you wanted to apply different rules for all languages that occur in the planet). cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
