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) -- Sent from my Nokia N9 On 10/01/2013 13:30 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 this, in OSM? 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=* __John _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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