On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Kay Drangmeister <k...@drangmeister.net> wrote: > Am 27.07.2011 19:22, schrieb M∡rtin Koppenhoefer: >>> >>> 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". >> >> 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). > > That, to me, is a convincing argument to tag the unabbreviated form > and let software (easily) do the abbreviation, instead of tagging > the abbreviation and have software do the (next to impossible) task > to un-abbreviate.
"name" is what is on (the majority of) the signs Anything else belongs in a different tag (long_name, full_name, pedants_name, whatever) _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
