This approach I like. Name:expanded perhaps?
To go back to earlier ideas.
Expanding the name sounds sensible but unfortunately the street signs
are posted with the abbreviation and some local mappers have a what is
on the sign goes in the map mentality. Also we have had discussions
about street names in Canada before and the decision was what the
municipality declares the street name is correct. That was to do with
either "rue Sparks" or should it be "Rue Sparks" in Quebec it would be
one way but in Ontario the other.
Thoughts
Thanks John
Colin Smale wrote on 2019-07-16 11:30 AM:
On 2019-07-16 16:54, John Whelan wrote:
One or two are problematic usually as the street name is an
abbreviation. For example 1e Avenue in French meaning First Avenue.
Any suggestions on how these should be handled? This particular
application is aimed at partially sighted people but I feel we should
be able to come up with a generic solution.
Some kind of phonetic (IPA?) representation would be the ultimate
generic solution. Here in NL (and I guess in many other countries)
there are street names which are partially or entirely in other
languages, and the expectation is that they are pronounced as such.
For example, Boeing Avenue would sound completely weird if it were
pronounced according to Dutch rules. Truly multi-lingual countries
like Belgium and Switzerland should be able to make use of name:XX.
If we had name:XX:ipa=* we would have a place to put it, but the
client app would need to have a way of turning that into sounds. It
will only be needed if the pronunciation deviates from the standard
for the language in question, but speech synthesisers are never
perfect and often make mistakes....
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/264239/is-there-any-online-tool-to-read-pronounce-ipa-and-apa-written-words
Of course we will also need a way of entering IPA symbols....
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