If we are using pronunciations as a guide shall I go and rename "Southwell" as "Suval" and Leicester as "Lesta"?
On Wednesday, 27 July 2011, andrzej zaborowski <balr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 27 July 2011 04:04, Stephen Hope <slh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 27 July 2011 10:40, Ed Loach <e...@loach.me.uk> wrote: >>> Yes, it is called Saint Albans, written St Albans, except where some >>> websites seem to have expanded it. >>> >>> e.g. >>> http://www.meteoprog.co.uk/en/weather/SaintAlbans/ >>> http://www.gomapper.com/travel/map-of/saint-albans.html >>> etc... >>> http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=%22saint+albans%22 >>> >>> I personally would be tempted to store the name tag in expanded form >>> so it is clear what the St abbreviation applies to (I've seen things >>> like S St N on Google where they've abbreviated South Street North, >>> for example, which just looks silly). This seems to agree with >>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name#Notes >>> >> >> Um - no. If a place wants to be written "St Albans", then that's the >> name. Just because you pronounce it "Saint Albans" makes no >> difference. > > I'd say the opposite is true. If it's pronounced "Saint Albans" then > that is the name. The local administration may want to spell it > however they like and make one way or the other official, but we don't > care, in the end it's always a product of how people are and have been > calling the place. Place names have often been abbreviated in writing > because there was never any need for consistency across countries and > continents, much less for machine-readability. In OSM there is this > need. > > Cheers > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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