Am 28. März 2012 13:46 schrieb Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com>: > Perhaps nobody ever writes NW as 'north-west', but I expect that > nobody ever pronounces it as 'enn double-yew' either. Speech > applications may require the name in pronounceable and unabbreviated > form. So there is certainly a case for having that in the map. > Whether it should be in the 'name' tag is another matter. > > I would also point out that the abbreviated form Ln, St, and so on can > be trivially derived from Lane and Street, but the reverse operation > is not so easy (St could be Saint). That argues for picking the form > with more information, if you have to pick one of them.
+1, e.g. there is the tag "official_name" that is used in some contexts to store fully expanded/long names (which usually aren't in colloquial use). For example the name-tag for Italy is "Italia" but the value of official_name is "Repubblica Italiana" (Italian republic). cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
