I'm using the capitalization of the street name as it is in OSM. Technically, shouldn't the city name in OpenStreetMap match the legal/geographical city and not the postal city?
Saikrishna Arcot On 01/13/2014 08:47 AM, Carl Anderson wrote: > Saikrishna, > > I recommend that you follow the capitalization style of the adjacent Way in > OSM. > > Blindly using init cap functions will mangle things like McGill Park > Ave, McFarlin Lane, ....... Which are correctly capitalized in OSM. > You could try to do something like > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Culturally_aware_initcap, but > following the style of existing data in OSM is better. > > C. > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Clifford Snow <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Saikrishna Arcot <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Note that some of the cities around here (for example, DeKalb County) >>> are mixed case. Currently, the city case is just converted to title case >>> (first letter capitalized, the rest lowercase). This will need to be >>> corrected before the import begins. >> >> If you have the data in a postgresql database, The Init_cap() function >> should capitalize correctly. If you do have this in a db, let me know and I >> might be able to help you. >> >> >> -- >> Clifford >> >> OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Imports mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports >> _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
