[Imports] TIGER09 over-digitizes, doesn't capitalize, abbreviates strangely

andrzej zaborowski balrogg at gmail.com
Tue Dec 22 14:04:03 GMT 2009


2009/12/22 Simone Cortesi <simone at cortesi.com>:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 13:54, Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> B. Some street names are being abbreviated in ways that the average
>> consumer may not recognize. Examples[1]:
>> Cll Quebrada (Calle Quebrada)
>> Cam Norte (Camino Norte)
>>
>> Also, suffixes are sometimes abbreviated strangely, like "Magdalena Ci"
>> instead of "Magdalena Cir" (Circle). At first glance in a small font, I
>> mis-read it as "Ct"[2].
>
> I'm all for not using prefixes/suffixes at all. It is better IMHO to
> have them always expanded

Exactly, abbreviations should generally not be used, they can't be
expanded automatically, same abbrev is often used for completely
different things in different linguistic environments.  Automatic
abbreviating is easier but can be problematic, too, on a global scale,
so perhaps abbreviated names can be put in a different tag.  The value
in name= should be what you expect to hear if you pipe names directly
to speech synthesis.

Cheers




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