On 23/03/12 21:04, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
On 23/03/2012 13:47, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote:
On 3/23/2012 8:36 AM, Mikel Maron wrote:
User chdr (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/chdr) seems to be
running a script to automatically replace street name abbreviations
with the full word.
so 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW becomes 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Northwest. Which is not the way anyone ever writes street names here
in DC.
IMHO, here in the US we have the USPS which has published standardized
street naming conventions specifically using the abbreviations. It
would seem to me that these "official" street names are what should
stick and the expansions of them should not be happening. Not to
mention how much more crowded the map labels would become.
I'm new to this problem, but those possible strategies spring to my mind:
- Record only the abbreviated name and let the user expand it using his
favourite rules if he wants.
- Record only the canonical expanded name and let the user abbreviate it
using his favourite rules if he wants.
- Record both the canonical expanded name and the abbreviated name, let
the user choose which one he wants.
They are correct as per here:
wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Abbreviation_.28don.27t_do_it.29
in that openstreetmap wiki has always had this.
For the other questions it's easy to go from the full name to an
abbreviated output but not always easy to go from abbreviated to full.
For example is Ln Line or Lane as per here:
wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Name_finder:Abbreviations
This has been debated many times. I know the USPS has it's "standard"
listing but the data input is more important to be the full name and
then abbreviate if necessary when output.
Cheers
Ross
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