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On 23/03/2012 13:47, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote:
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On 3/23/2012 8:36 AM, Mikel Maron wrote:
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<div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times
new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"> <span>User
chdr (</span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/chdr">http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/chdr</a>) seems
to be running a script to automatically replace street name
abbreviations with the full word.
<div>so 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW becomes 1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue Northwest. Which is not the way anyone ever writes
street names here in DC.</div>
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IMHO, here in the US we have the USPS which has published
standardized street naming conventions specifically using the
abbreviations. It would seem to me that these "official" street
names are what should stick and the expansions of them should not
be happening. Not to mention how much more crowded the map labels
would become.<br>
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I'm new to this problem, but those possible strategies spring to my
mind:<br>
- Record only the abbreviated name and let the user expand it using
his favourite rules if he wants.<br>
- Record only the canonical expanded name and let the user
abbreviate it using his favourite rules if he wants.<br>
- Record both the canonical expanded name and the abbreviated name,
let the user choose which one he wants.<br>
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Would a name:abbreviated tag make sense ?<br>
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Is the expanded name the canonical one ?<br>
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