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

[Pieren]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Florian Lohoff<flo at rfc822.org> wrote:
> Putting explicit abbreviation onto all streets is a huge overkill.
> I'd rather vote for a simple abbreviation dictionary in the svn

Some dictionnary like this one on the wiki :
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Name_finder:Abbreviations

This is a renderer issue. It is also the software to decide whether it
has enough space to print the full name or require some abbreviations
depending on the zoom level.

About your question:
>For the rendering options: just put them all in the 'name' tag,
>separated by ';' ?
I would say no because you tag for the renderer in this case. The tag
'name' is the local name. Then use another tag for the
romanized/English name (name:en ?). Then if you want to see both on a
map, you have to do it in the renderer itself.
Pieren