[Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 10 April 2010 11:07, Richard Finegold <goldfndr+osm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 20:32, Val Kartchner <val42k at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 00:59 +0200, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
>>> On 7 April 2010 20:12, Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Having said that, I think it is a bad idea to have a bot going
>> through
>>> > and attempting to expand abbreviations.
>
> I agree. If a bot can do this then that is evidence that a renderer or
> other data consumer can expand them if desired. But is the bot
> supplying its source of heightened accuracy? Surely the bot isn't
> checking physical signage.

No, its only useful piece of knowledge is that the TIGER ruleset
applies to this data here.  If you had to incorporate in your renderer
such a bot for every one of the 200 countries this wouldn't be fun,
that's why the consensus (according to wiki and discussions on talk at ..
and irc) is not to use abbrevs at all. (with some exceptions)

So it really shou;d have done as part of the conversion from TIGER to
osm format.

>
>
> but not at lower zooms. There's a claim of "This will allow a renderer
> to introduce abbreviations as necessary." in the wiki, but is it true?
> Does andrzej or someone else have an algorithm that can work with the
> examples in the essay at http://vidthekid.info/misc/osm-abbr.html

No, but it's a good idea, on some weekend I'll set up a mapnik and see
how to get it to display shortened names in US at lower zoom levels.

Cheers