[OSM-dev] Automatic generation of short_name / alt_name where missing and obvious

[Sarah Hoffmann]

On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 07:15:38PM +0100, Roland Olbricht via dev wrote:
> > > Is there some existing code/library/tool for generating obvious
> > > short_name / alt_name from other tagged data?
> > 
> > Specifically for shortened names, this list of common abbreviations
> > could help: https://wiki.osm.org/Name_finder:Abbreviations
> 
> Thank you for the pointer. At least for German (and for French as far as
> I can judge) please take it with a grain of salt:
> - The by far fast common practices to shorten names are to resort to
> KFZ-Kennzeichen (district codes), i.e. "K-Süd" is the short_name for
> "Köln-Süd"
> - In 95% of Germany (everywhere except Berlin), the abbreviaton of
> "Bahnhof" is "Bf"
> - the suffix "straße" resp. "Straße" is shortened to "str." resp.
> "Str.", everything else is uncommon
> - French street names are shortened by entirely removing the generic
> parts, i.e. "Place Victor Hugo" has short_name "Victor Hugo"

... unless they are shortened by removing the first name.
Read https://github.com/osm-search/Nominatim/issues/679 for a
couple of fun examples.

Three more libraries that collect lists of abbreviations:

https://github.com/openvenues/libpostal/tree/master/resources/dictionaries
https://github.com/OpenCageData/address-formatting/tree/master/conf/abbreviations
https://github.com/mapbox/geocoder-abbreviations

Kind regards

Sarah