On Oct 4, 2012, at 11:26 AM, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> Hi,
> there's been a lot of talk at one point about abbreviating names in
> the OSM database vs. doing it when processing the data at consumers
> end. Since mapnik now supports alternative label placements I gave
> rendering automatically abbreviated names a try. This resulted in a
> (so far) tiny C library (https://github.com/balrog-kun/shrtnms) that
> abbreviates the names of map features that you give it. It's very
> rough but it already handles a couple of the main corner cases. It's
> just a start on collecting the list of all the abbreviations
> applicable in all the map languages. Currently only has basic lists
> for Polish, Spanish and English, where the rules don't differ so much.
> As an example German is more tricky.
>
> I see two ways to use it for rendering:
>
> * inside mapnik stylesheets, perhaps by calling the C function from
> the SQL queries. This would require adding the postgres bindings,
> something I've never done.
> * inside osm2pgsql so that the abbreviated names are stored in table columns.
>
> As a quick hack I went for the latter option. It gets tricky with
> hstore and multilingual maps but it works as a first attempt.
I like the in-tool option as well. These days I prefer Imposm, so I wrote this
abbreviator in Python:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/StreetNames
(code: http://teczno.com/s/cx2)
Only does U.S. streets so far. The abbr_name / short_name tags are a great
hint, Dave and Peter!
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