David ``Smith'' wrote: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Randy <[email protected]> wrote: >> By the way JOSM, at least, will be much happier if you change all those >> street abbreviations (Ln, Dr, etc.) to full words. > > I have my own (probably unpopular) opinion on that, see link below. > But why does JOSM care? Shouldn't editors just treat names as any > string and leave them alone?
JOSM does, it marks it as an "informational" level problem, and for good reason. Anything that can be abbreviated can be abbreviated by the renderer as appropriate. Abbreviations cannot be so easily expanded: "Northeast Mount Saint Helens Street" versus "NE Mt. St. Helens St." is hopefully a sufficiently obvious example. It's not "New England Mountain Street Helens Street..." Seaching for abbreviations is similarly easy. Entering "Northeast" could also search for "NE", for example. > For my detailed reasoning on keeping abbreviations in the name tag, > see: <http://vidthekid.info/misc/osm-abbr.html>. Note, I'm currently > considering alternate views and I may propose a compromise in the > future. Note that the Postal Service only permits abbreviations as a convenience, and prefers that addresses are written uppercase-only in a humanist font (block letters), with no abbreviations other than the two letter state, though deliveries will still be made with as little as the house number, street name and the full nine-digit zip (note: zip codes haven't been five digits I was an infant; similarly phone numbers haven't been 7 digits since I was in high school). _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
