[Talk-us] name expansion bot (Re: Imports information on the wiki)

[Paul Johnson]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:41 PM, TC Haddad <tchaddad at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org>wrote:
>
>  but overall, the automation saved countless hours of manual name
>> expansion for the minor cost of having to deal with a very small number of
>> largely regionally-isolated edge cases.
>>
>>
> Can someone explain the original point of name expansion? Is it so that
> devices that give audio directions using text-to-speech can read fluently?
> Or was it really all about "saving time"?
>
> Because there are other use cases where expanded names are not desirable,
> particularly in cartography. When map or screen real estate is minimal,
> expanded names can be downright detrimental to utility.
>
>
Sounds like a problem for the renderer to solve.  It's possible for
renderers to easily create abbreviations when full words are not desired,
but impossible for automated translation and renderers to expand
abbreviations accurately.
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