On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Gerald A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > James Ewen said: > > The thread died before anyone actually discussed the > > > North/East/South/West portion... > > [...] > > The wiki mentions that the named street type should be spelt out in > > full. ie. Street, Avenue, Place, Way, Crescent. > > > As for the quadrant dilemma, I have been going with the abbreviation. > > Nearly all of Edmonton is in the NW quadrant, with a small portion in > > the NE, and now a growing section in the SW. There is no SE section to > > Edmonton yet. All of the proper addressing is done with the > > abbreviated version used, such as NW rather than spelt out Northwest > > (also note, it would not be North West) > > My feeling would be that these too should be spelled out, to be consistent > with the rest of the data. If we don't abbreviate Street and Avenue, it > doesn't make sense to abbreviate direction indications. > > Just my 2 cents. :)
Spelling them out means that it is clear that E means East, etc. Plus, the renderer can always shorten East to E and Street to St., if needed. Going the other way is more tricking, especially with names with Saint in street names. Corey _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-ca
