> he probado OSMOND en España de vacaciones y hay muchas variantes del > nombre de la calle-partes. > > Avendia > Av. > Av > Avda. > Plaza > Pza. > Calle > C/ > Pje > .... > dr. > doctor > Interesting and a simple thing to do, it seems. First thing is, in my opinion, in OSM we should always use the full street denomination, without using any abbreviations (most of the times those abbreviations are used in the real world is because of the lack of space, something that is not a problem in computer based data storage).
To me, using anything but the full street name denomination is simply a bad practice, and should be avoided. Should rendering software believe the "type of way" is too lengthy, they can choose to replace the whole text with the official abbreviations. When searching for addresses, typing the type of way can only bring too many irrelevant matches and slow down the whole operation. There are, however, places where the same name can be given to a variety of ways (calle, avenida, pasaje, plaza, etc.). But even in those cases a search for the "name" will only return a handful of matches. In any case, as mentioned, to me using anything but the full text string denominator for a way is just a poor practice. A bot that replaces those strings would be much appreciated, but doing that manually shouldn't be that painful, if using some end user tools (i.e. JOSM and filters to apply some tag changes in batches). Cheers. -- Jose Luis Domingo Lopez Linux Registered User #189436, Linux Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (3.2.0-35-generic-pae) _______________________________________________ Talk-es mailing list Talk-es@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-es
