On 28/07/2011 09:33, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
So what's the correct name of the bridge? Does the highway department set
the standard, and so both saints are abbreviated? Or do we go with what the
cities call themselves and use Saint Paul-East St. Paul Bridge?
I wonder what the process is to
Colin Smale wrote:
On 28/07/2011 09:33, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
So what's the correct name of the bridge? Does the highway department set
the standard, and so both saints are abbreviated? Or do we go with what
the
cities call themselves and use Saint Paul-East St. Paul Bridge?
I wonder
On 28/07/2011 13:27, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
Here (Florida) most roads are named by subdivision plats. Names can be
changed and unplatted streets can be named by government resolution. Here's
an example:
2011/7/28 Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl:
It sounds like there are three types of street name:
1) Official, as decided by the Powers That Be
2) Signed, as displayed on the signs
3) Colloquial, as people habitually use
So which one do we put in name=*, and what do we do with the others?
Colin Smale wrote:
I assume all the variations would be easily understood anyway so it
probably doesn't matter that much. Not worth a protracted debate in any
case... In this case it might make sense to opt for the variant with the
least possiblity of misunderstanding, so Parkway. If
2011/7/28 Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com:
Then the process for finding the name would need to include traveling the
entire length of the road and looking at each sign. Because of sign
inconsistency, one would end up with parallel streets, some abbreviated and
some not.
Because of sign
1. It was decided a long time ago that abbreviations are not used in tag
name
2. the US contributors can decide to do it differently than the rest of the
world for their country but they will have to explain why software
developers should develop special code for them
3. the tag official_name has
On 28/07/2011 15:13, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
Colin Smale wrote:
I assume all the variations would be easily understood anyway so it
probably doesn't matter that much. Not worth a protracted debate in any
case... In this case it might make sense to opt for the variant with the
least possiblity
4. although the tag name is used by Mapnik and others, please don't fulfill
the tag name for the renderers
Likewise, my favourite annoyance tagging a place name with the English and
the Arabic [1]:
- *name*: Tripoli طرابلس
Some might argue that this will render nicely for those of us who
2011/7/28 Joseph Reeves iknowjos...@gmail.com:
4. although the tag name is used by Mapnik and others, please don't fulfill
the tag name for the renderers
Likewise, my favourite annoyance tagging a place name with the English and
the Arabic [1]:
This is IMHO a hint where we could improve the
On 28/07/2011 15:32, Pieren wrote:
1. It was decided a long time ago that abbreviations are not used in
tag name
To quote the wiki:
...except if the signs have abbreviated words and you don't know what
the full word is. There is currently no table of standard abbreviations
(St. could be
Colin Smale wrote:
It's still the same road, even in the face of variations in the
spelling. I can't for the life of me think of a reason for worrying
about whether it's Pkwy or Parkway, as both are easily understood to be
equivalent. There will only be one official spelling (cf. your
Am 28.07.2011, 15:59 Uhr, schrieb M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com:
This is IMHO a hint where we could improve the rendering to overcome
this situation, as it is clearly tagging for the renderers. I guess
the editor who made this edit in Version 31 (before it was consistent)
added the
2011/7/28 Kay Drangmeister k...@drangmeister.net:
Yup, my favourite is Europe's most important country:
http://osm.org/go/0B2j-
covering the country name for UK, Germany, and other nearby countries :-D
If you're referring to Belgium: they actually do have 3 official
names. Not sure how to
On 28 July 2011 16:41, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
2011/7/28 Kay Drangmeister k...@drangmeister.net:
Yup, my favourite is Europe's most important country:
http://osm.org/go/0B2j-
covering the country name for UK, Germany, and other nearby countries :-D
If you're
Joseph Reeves writes:
Some might argue that this will render nicely for those of us who don't read
Arabic, but it's completely wrong. The name:en tag exists for a reason - put
the English in there and have the name: as طرابلس
some places render it better. e.g this bilingual rendering
Bilingual or localised renderings are great - exactly what should be
happening - but stuffing a load of different names in the same field is a
horrible practice. Additional localised renderings would presumably help,
but I don't know who's going to stump up the servers and bandwidth for that.
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
then let's nominate a tag to contain the as signed form, so everybody
knows where they're at. Then the renderers only have two places to look to
find the most useful form.
Such tag already exist and was mentionned on
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