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

[John F. Eldredge]

Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/17/2012 4:41 PM, TC Haddad wrote:
> > For example: in Portland all the expanded quadrant names (NE,NW, SE,
> SW)
> > really detract from the experience of using osm extracts on handheld
> > GPS. All the streets in an area of interest end up looking like they
> > have the same name because all that fits on the street segments is
> the
> > first word of the expanded quadrant label and not the "real" part of
> the
> > name. So "NE Tillamook" and "NE Hancock" both just label as
> > "Northeast"... and that is separate from the issue that people don't
> > actually write addresses here as "Northeast Tillamook".
> 
> If the directional prefixes are not generally used as part of the
> name, 
> they should probably not be in the name tag, but instead as an address
> 
> tag (I've used addr:direction e.g. 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/140789671).
> 

Does he mean that people don't use the prefix at all when referring to the street, or does he mean that people use the abbreviated form of the prefix, rather than the spelled-out prefix?  The statement could be interpreted either way.

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