[Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions
Paul Johnson
baloo at ursamundi.org
Wed Apr 7 23:35:56 BST 2010
On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:36:11 -0600, Val Kartchner wrote:
> Using USPS abbreviations is the convention used by all commercial online
> mapping providers that I've seen. (i.e.: maps.google.com,
> maps.yahoo.com, www.bing.com/maps ) I think that OSM should adopt the
> same convention.
That's a rendering issue, not a base-data issue. Data should be entered
into the database complete, not abbreviated. If you want abbreviations
on your renderings, create a stylesheet that creates appropriate
abbreviations.
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