[talk-au] General Observations.

Brendan Morley morb.gis at beagle.com.au
Thu May 20 02:01:43 BST 2010


On Sun, 9 May 2010 18:59:25 +1000, Ross Scanlon wrote:

>7.  Abbreviations

>-  Abbreviations in street names are a no no.  Read the wiki page at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name,  DON"T do it.  At the moment in the Bunbury 
area alone there are 380+ abreviated street names (according to josm validator).

I actually would like to discuss this a bit further.  Street signs in Brisbane regularly have the street type abbreviated (ST, RD, MWY, ART) and I think it is better to 
record the "in the field" name as such.  Even with accurate capitalisation.

Think tourists who aren't familiar with the way we do things around here.


Brendan

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