My friend Terence Eden has some interesting comments on documenting
the pronunciation of place names, in this blog post:
http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/01/its-pronounced-reading/
on which I've added a comment.
Can we solve the problem of how to do this, in OSM?
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Andy Mabbett
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On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
My friend Terence Eden has some interesting comments on documenting
the pronunciation of place names, in this blog post:
Can we solve the problem of how to do this, in OSM?
We could have a keyword convention for
On 10/01/2013 13:30, John Sturdy wrote:
We could have a keyword convention for indicating the pronunciation
(in various languages) using the International Phonetic Alphabet; for
example, we could supplement name:language=* with
name:language:IPA=*
I did this:
If we were to use this method then we would need to tag a lot of road names,
as in my experience these are the names satnavs use. It is rare for them to
actually pronounce a place name but road names are often named after the place
they go to.
Phil (trigpoint)
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Andy Mabbett wrote:
Can we solve the problem of how to do this, in OSM?
Not a direct solution to the problem, but:
My quick-and-extremely dirty approach was to search and replace problem
strings between the OSM extract download and mkgmap that creates the
Nuvi map - I think that it
Some sort of lookup database for pronunciation would be good, where
we can add problem names a they are found.
Some more particular problems I have heard frequently are Vale of Belvoir,
Groby, Whitwick and thats is just some in Leicestershire.
Phil (trigpoint)
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On
On Thursday 10 January 2013, John Sturdy wrote:
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk
wrote:
My friend Terence Eden has some interesting comments on documenting
the pronunciation of place names, in this blog post:
Can we solve the problem of how to do
Shrewsbury is pronounced Shrew, a in the tiny animal, by locals.
Have just asked someone born there, his comment was its only pronounced
Shrowsbury by posh people who aren't from there, and those who go to shrowsbury
school.
Phil
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On 10/01/2013 16:18 Robert Scott
On 10 January 2013 17:26, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote:
Shrewsbury is pronounced Shrew, a in the tiny animal, by locals.
Have just asked someone born there, his comment was its only pronounced
Shrowsbury by posh people who aren't from there, and those who go to
shrowsbury
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