[Talk-ee] Abbreviations in names

Hi list Sorry for writing in English again as my Estonian is still too weak. I noticed that a lot of abbreviations such as mnt and pst have appeared on the map where maantee and puiestee used to be. Vitalts had made this change, motivated by information on the Estonian OSM wiki page:

Re: [Talk-ee] Abbreviations in names

I don't see that the main renderers (mapnik) and search engines (nominatim) will handle Estonian street name abbreviations properly any time soon. Actually, nominatim has an abbreviation database that it automatically consults. But this mechanism assumes that the full long is in OSM and the

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No abbreviations for other cases, e.g. person names This is actually an interesting question in itself: A. Laikmaa as it is now or better Ants Laikmaa without abbreviation? This is just plain error and should be fixed, IMHO. Jaak ___ Talk-ee

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Which one is an error? The short form or the long form? - Bartosz ___ Talk-ee mailing list Talk-ee@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ee

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Excellent, so there is agreement on the expansion of these abbreviations. I am curious why your opinion is different when it comes to maantee and the like. It cannot be purely because these make street names longer - Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwaldi is much longer than F.R. Kreutzwaldi after

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The key difference is that mnt-maantee is in theory and also practically 100% automatically replaceable, abbreviated first name like P. is never. So if needed we can replace all the mnt and pst during postprocessing or even with database bot. Jaak On 04.01.2012, at 15:06, Bartosz