<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 11:20 AM Markus <<a href="mailto:selfishseahorse@gmail.com">selfishseahorse@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Sat, 14 Dec 2019 at 01:44, Graeme Fitzpatrick <<a href="mailto:graemefitz1@gmail.com" target="_blank">graemefitz1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> When that is how the business name is shown, what is our policy for it?<br>
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I thought we had a policy for it, but i can't fine one. It's probably<br>
rather an observation that names in all caps are mapped in title case<br>
except for acronyms. I think this makes sense because it doesn't give<br>
these names more importance than other names in title case. By the<br>
way, newspapers do the same.<br></blockquote><div>did come to mind.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I would favor adding the name exactly as it appears in a sign, even including punctuation marks if it's in their sign. For example AT&T. AT&T at one time was an abbreviation for American Telephone & Telegraph but they dropped the full name for AT&T sometime back. It technically isn't an acronym anymore. TCBY (The Countries Best Yogurt) is a yogurt shop that is widely recognized in the US. If you wrote Tcyb, I doubt most people would even recognize it. If written out, The Countries Best Yogurt, people probably would recognize it either. See <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2304474733">https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2304474733</a> for an example. </div><div><br></div><div>Newspapers have a different reason for changing case and even dropping punctuation marks, readability. OSM is interested in capturing ground truth. </div><div><br></div><div>The iD editor has a great feature that corrects the name to the official name along with wikidata tags. The name just needs to be in their database. It would be nice if JOSM had a similar feature. </div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Clifford</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>@osm_washington<br></div><div><a href="https://www.snowandsnow.us" target="_blank">www.snowandsnow.us</a></div><div>OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>