Afternoon, I concur with Toby+Clifford.
I had a discussion with a coworker about road name abbreviations in OSM. He came across an existing OSM wiki page that contains a lookup table that maps the full word (street type or general place) to an abbreviation (mostly USPS): · http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Name_finder:Abbreviations#English Additionally, the USPS publishes their official abbreviations: · https://www.usps.com/send/official-abbreviations.htm These accepted and documented abbreviation practices can be used by end-users when processing the OSM data for display purposes. Best, Kristen --- Kristen Kam OSM Profile --> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/KristenK From: Clifford Snow [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2014 1:14 PM To: Toby Murray Cc: talk-us Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Road abbreviations On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Toby Murray <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: The answer is: Neither. It is always easier to go from full names to abbreviations for display than to go the other way around. (See Mapquest tiles - they abbreviate street names) Therefore we should always store things un-abbreviated. No ambiguity, no questions about which list of abbreviations, no one making their own abbreviations. Everything is explicit. +1 -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us<http://osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us> OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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