Indeed. On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Pieren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > such table already exists for the name finder: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Name_finder:Abbreviations > Pieren > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Andy Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Inge Wallin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > In some places the streets are very short. This makes it difficult to >> > show >> > the name of the street in full. However, for most street names there >> > exist a >> > short form. In swedish most names are of the form Foogatan (Foo street) >> > or >> > Barvägen (Bar road). These are often shortened to Foog. or Barv. in >> > commercial maps. >> > >> > It would be nice if we could tag this in OSM with something like: >> > >> > name=Foovägen >> > name:sh=Foov (or name:short) >> > >> > *and* that the renderers would take this into account where it is >> > applicable. >> > The whole scheme is irrelevant if the renderers don't use it. >> > >> > An alternative would be that the renderers have a table of common >> > abbreviations like: >> > >> > road: rd >> > street: str >> > vägen: v (swedish) >> > gatan: g (swedish) >> > Straße: str (german) >> > ...etc >> >> I think the rendering decisions should be left up to the renderers, >> where possible, rather than adding extra tags. It's not inconceivable, >> for example, for the length of the displayed road to be calculated and >> the name shortened where possible using a lookup table as you suggest. >> >> Cheers, >> Andy >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk > >
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