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