On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar<[email protected]> wrote: > I've actually been thinking of suggesting an ":abbr" suffix key to all > name-accepting tags (name, name:en, name:fr, alt_name, int_name, etc.) and > the values are a semicolon-separated list of abbreviations. This is > backwards compatible since existing tools can still use the base name tags > and ignore the :abbr tags. But for renderers and namefinder tools that need > abbreviated names, then can then look into the :abbr tags and select the one > which fits the space or matches a query.
That would be a lot of redundant data considering the standard-abbreviations. Also think about the fact the abbreviations are language-dependent. So there are different abbreviations based on what language-variant of the name you are using. Marcus _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
