[OSM-dev] Rendering of long street names for short streets

[Marcus Wolschon]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar<seav80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've actually been thinking of suggesting an ":abbr" suffix key to all
> name-accepting tags (name, name:en, name:fr, alt_name, int_name, etc.) and
> the values are a semicolon-separated list of abbreviations. This is
> backwards compatible since existing tools can still use the base name tags
> and ignore the :abbr tags. But for renderers and namefinder tools that need
> abbreviated names, then can then look into the :abbr tags and select the one
> which fits the space or matches a query.


That would be a lot of redundant data considering the standard-abbreviations.
Also think about the fact the abbreviations are language-dependent.
So there are different abbreviations based on what language-variant of
the name you are using.

Marcus