[OSM-talk-be] Initial stuck to the name

[Jo]

The rant about those source tags is something you'd better aim at
talk-fr... We don't have the answers to those questions.

Jo

2013/3/17 A.Pirard.Papou <A.Pirard.Papou at gmail.com>

>  On 2013-03-17 13:02, Jo wrote :
>
> Soms staat het aan de ene kant van de straat wel voluit en aan de andere
> kant afgekort, afhankelijk van wanneer dat bord geplaatst werd en of het
> crisis was op dat moment... Toch is dat geen straat met een dubbele naam.
>
> Het is niet zo moeilijk voor iemand om te zien dat een volledig geschreven
> naam dezelfde is als de afgekorte naam en ook voor computers is het
> eenvoudiger om iets te coderen dat afkort, dan iets dat correct
> 'expandeert'.
>
> Is St. Sint of Straat? Is r. rue of ruelle?
>
> And what is the cost of a "in" and a "ue" minus two "." beside thousands
> and thousands of:
> "cadastre-dgi-fr source : Direction Générale des Impôts - Cadastre. Mise à
> jour : 2012"?
> (using "source" and "cadastre" twice)
>
> BTW:
> -does anybody know why they tag that source on each and every node? How
> could the nodes have a source different from that of their way?
> - and, conversely, how, on the French border, can the source be 2012 for
> the way and 2011 for the nodes?
> - how is it possible that they split a segment of that border with one
> half source 2011 and the other 2012?  Did they go on strike while tagging?
> - how is it possible that that date changing border is in places a good 20
> m away from my RW source?  Does it move a little bit each year unnoticed?
>
> My strongest argument is having those terms understood by foreigners.
> Think of trying to understand what  Ул.  and  Г.  mean.
> Hence what I understand the least is why dictionaries use abbreviations.
> (and why "abbreviation" uses one more letter than "abréviation" ;-) )
>
> Have a nice week,
> Cheers,
>
>   André.
>
>
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