On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Carl Anderson <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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.
>

That is true. However, no matter which method used, it is import to
accurately capture the correct capitalization. Simple modification of
initcap can work as well as other methods.


-- 
Clifford

OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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