[Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions

[Val Kartchner]

First of all, I've renamed the subject to what it is really discussing.

On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 19:24 -0700, Alan Mintz wrote:
> name: The pre-balrog name
> name_direction_prefix: The 1-2 char cardinal direction before the root
> use_name_direction_prefix: {yes|no} Yes indicates that the 
> name_direction_prefix should be rendered/spoken
> name_root: The actual root of the name
> name_direction_suffix: The 1-2 char cardinal direction after the root
> name_type: {St|Ave|Blvd|etc.} Common, documented abbreviations allowed
> render_name: The name to be rendered on a map (if not name for some reason)
> spoken_name: The complete expanded name, ready for text-2-speech
> 
> The post-balrog name should go into spoken_name for now. The pre-balrog 
> name would be restored to the name tag and also split up into the name_* tags.

I think that your proposal would cover both of the address forms covered
in "http://vidthekid.info/misc/osm-abbr.html".  Would this still hold
for the rest of the world, or have we decided to dump the "global"
thing?

- Val -