On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Alan Millar <amillar...@gmail.com> wrote: > How about this proposal for US streets: > > (1) Leave "name" unabbreviated > > (2) Put whatever form you want of abbreviated name in "name:en"
I suggest not. We already have an expectation of having the real English name in name:en. I would argue that name:en should be the same as name. (Well, for most places in US, perhaps not all, we wouldn't translate "Los Angeles into "The Angels" would we?) If you wanted to render[1] an all English map of the world, you'd likely use name:en. You would likely be disappointed if the data there was something other than the actual English name. [1] I'm not talking about a specific renderer, but any renderer. In this case it could be text to speech software for turn-by-turn announcements, a paper map, tiles, anything where language choice is important. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
