On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 03:35:07PM +1200, Robin Paulson wrote: > is there any consensus on shortening of parts of names? > e.g.: > street/st > saint/st > avenue/ave > point/pt > mount/mt > > i was under the impression consensus was to type the full word, then > renderers would shorten where necessary? apparently some mappers > disagree though
Yes, thats the consensus and has been for a long time. Some mappers always disagree, just ignore them. :-) Unfortunately imported data often has abbreviated names. Jochen -- Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
