On 10 April 2010 11:07, Richard Finegold <goldfndr+...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 20:32, Val Kartchner <val...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 00:59 +0200, andrzej zaborowski wrote: >>> 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 agree. If a bot can do this then that is evidence that a renderer or > other data consumer can expand them if desired. But is the bot > supplying its source of heightened accuracy? Surely the bot isn't > checking physical signage.
No, its only useful piece of knowledge is that the TIGER ruleset applies to this data here. If you had to incorporate in your renderer such a bot for every one of the 200 countries this wouldn't be fun, that's why the consensus (according to wiki and discussions on t...@.. and irc) is not to use abbrevs at all. (with some exceptions) So it really shou;d have done as part of the conversion from TIGER to osm format. > > > but not at lower zooms. There's a claim of "This will allow a renderer > to introduce abbreviations as necessary." in the wiki, but is it true? > Does andrzej or someone else have an algorithm that can work with the > examples in the essay at http://vidthekid.info/misc/osm-abbr.html No, but it's a good idea, on some weekend I'll set up a mapnik and see how to get it to display shortened names in US at lower zoom levels. Cheers _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
