On 18 Jul 2009, at 09:13, Michael Ritzert wrote: > Hi, > > Florian Lohoff wrote: >> Putting explicit abbreviation onto all streets is a huge overkill. >> I'd rather vote for a simple abbreviation dictionary in the svn >> which is renderer agnostic. I am not shure on how to include >> the abbreviation then as the renderer would need to chose the name >> based on the space available. > > I had once (locally) tested a patch for t...@h to try and find shorter > names for streets when there is little space. The patch itself was > rather easy, but getting the location dependency in the process was > harder. For my tests, I created an input file where each road had the > is_in tag correctly set. With this information, I was able to > distinguish between for example Spanish "Calle"s which are abbreviated > as "C/" (and several other options) or left out completely and Italian > "Calle"s to be shortened to "C.le". >
Do not use the freeform is_in tag, as it just bloats the data with unnecessary information. It is also very difficult to parse due to its freeform nature. Get a set of country polygons and test to see which one each street is inside of. Shaun _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
