[talk-au] General Observations.

[John Smith]

On 20 May 2010 13:05, Brendan Morley <morb.gis at beagle.com.au> wrote:
> I was thinking more about the situation where they use the map to navigate, either as a printout or even driving directions.  OSM tells them to use "East-West
> Arterial Road" and all they can see on the sign is "EAST WEST ART RD"?  Is it the same thing?  Think about it the other way, what if you were trying to decipher,
> for example, Japanese script?

What's on signs isn't always the ofiicial name and it isn't the only
way to verify the street names. Councils have been dropping
apostrophes from signs, but the official street name still contains
them.