Perhaps nobody ever writes NW as 'north-west', but I expect that nobody ever pronounces it as 'enn double-yew' either. Speech applications may require the name in pronounceable and unabbreviated form. So there is certainly a case for having that in the map. Whether it should be in the 'name' tag is another matter.
I would also point out that the abbreviated form Ln, St, and so on can be trivially derived from Lane and Street, but the reverse operation is not so easy (St could be Saint). That argues for picking the form with more information, if you have to pick one of them. -- Ed Avis <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
