On 20 May 2010 11:01, Brendan Morley <morb....@beagle.com.au> wrote: > Brisbane regularly have the street type abbreviated (ST, RD, MWY, ART) and I > think it is better to record the "in the field" name as such. Even with > accurate capitalisation. > > Think tourists who aren't familiar with the way we do things around here.
You are confusing use with recording, if you record the actual street type, software can then convert both the searches and the output to show what people expect, some street types have multiple abbreviations and would be even more difficult to search. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
