At 2010-04-06 22:36, Val Kartchner wrote:
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Using USPS abbreviations is the convention used by all commercial online
mapping providers that I've seen. (i.e.: maps.google.com,
maps.yahoo.com, www.bing.com/maps ) I think that OSM should adopt the
same convention.
What do people think?
Yes!
On 04/07/2010 03:20 AM, Gregory Arenius wrote:
I would also like to note though that the USPS abbreviations list is
copyright the USPS. We'd probably have to recreate a similar list if we
really wanted to make it our own just so that our standard is something
we can put in our own
andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com writes:
Hi,
On 7 April 2010 07:36, Val Kartchner val...@gmail.com wrote:
The Editing Standards and
Conventions
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Editing_Standards_and_Conventions;)
page says: In the name tag, enter the full name as it appears on the
What do people think?
It is easy (I think) to know what St, Ave, and Blvd mean at the end
of the name. The rest of them aren't always clear. I recently had to
figure out what a Lp was (Loop - this one was new to me).
I used to live on Southbay Drive. I would get mail addressed as South
Bay
I have worked with these issues for a number of years in my
professional life. We have found that it is better to spell out
street names. As Matthias pointed out, it is far easier to convert a
named that is spelled out to one that is abbreviated than the other
way around. I have seen far too
It would probably be best to have both the 'as displayed' name, and 'as
spoken' in the tags. Anything else you have to make assumptions that may or
may not be right.
If both are not stored, the next best alternative seems to be having the
full spoken name in the tags, but have seprate
Hi,
On 7 April 2010 20:12, Mike Thompson miketh...@gmail.com wrote:
Having said that, I think it is a bad idea to have a bot going through
and attempting to expand abbreviations.
I ran the bot ([1]) over the west half of the US because me and
another mapper in Portland, OR were tired of
On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:36:11 -0600, Val Kartchner wrote:
Using USPS abbreviations is the convention used by all commercial online
mapping providers that I've seen. (i.e.: maps.google.com,
maps.yahoo.com, www.bing.com/maps ) I think that OSM should adopt the
same convention.
That's a
On 8 April 2010 00:13, Dale Puch dale.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Personally I like the 3 field, or event the 4 field storage of the name.
Yes that means there is not a single field that has the full name, but I do
not think a lookup and concat of 4 fields vs 1 field is much different in an
indexed
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