[Talk-us] Admin boundaries tied to roads

[Val Kartchner]

On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 10:57 -0700, am12 wrote:
> > I'm saying that abbreviations are part of every day life, and locals know
> 
> > what to abbreviate and what not to. 
> 
> Sure, according to their local usage, which will be inconsistent with local
> usage in other places.  What one local thinks is an obvious abbreviation
> usage because "everyone knows it" will not be obvious to a map user from
> elsewhere.
> 
> > How does commercial text-2-speech handle this? 
> 
> Unabbreviated, better-structured data.

So, does that mean that street names like "40th Street", for instance
should be expanded to "Fortieth Street"?

- Val -