When I have added bus stop names in the past, using signposts or local knowledge, I have avoided abbreviations as I have understood that to be usual OSM practice. I am familiar with abbreviations so I am comfortable with them, especially "St" instead of "Street" and "Dr" instead of "Drive". Both methods convey the necessary information to users so I have no strong view. My particular request is to avoid capitalising words other than street or place names so that "Opp" would be "opposite" or "opp" and "After" would be "after" without capital letter. I don't think these intermediary words are usually capitalised and it was this unfamiliar capitalisation that jarred with me as I read the names of the bus stops. Whichever way it is done, this data will be a welcome addition to OSM. Thanks.
On Fri, 13 Nov 2020, at 4:17 PM, Andrew Davidson wrote: > On 10/11/2020 9:08 am, Andrew Harvey wrote: > > There was some work going on at > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TfNSW_Data_Imports which I don't > > think made it to the list. So this is the perfect opportunity to raise > > it on the list and if there are any concerns or discussions for that > > import, let's work that out here. > > What are people's views on abbreviations in bus stop names? > > When I was working on bus stops in Canberra I converted names such as: > > River St Opp Morpeth St > Yamba Dr 2nd After Wisdom St > > to > > River Street Opposite Morpeth Street > Yamba Drive Second After Wisdom Street > > Is it worthwhile doing this for the TfNSW data or are people happy if > the abbreviated versions get imported? > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
