[Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

[Alan Mintz]

At 2012-05-11 10:20, David ``Smith'' wrote:
>Third, I suggest retaining the abbreviated form in a tag like abbr_name. 
>Ideally, this should be the exact abbreviated form used on signs, if 
>that's consistent.  Getting this right requires local knowledge, but 
>TIGER's abbreviation might be better than nothing. I'm sure some will 
>disagree with that point.

Better yet, since a proper expansion bot has to chop up the name into its 
components, why not take the opportunity to advance the project by tagging 
(and re-abbreviating if necessary) those individual components (e.g. 
street:dir_prefix, street:name, street:type, street:dir_suffix)? That, I 
could support. One field with the full name for the text-to-speech 
consumers, and another set of fields to properly identify the street the 
way others do.


>Fifth, renderers must take care in abbreviating street names. For example, 
>Mapquest Open turns Lane Avenue into Ln Ave, where only the last word 
>should be abbreviated. To eliminate guesswork, renderers can use the 
>abbr_name tag, if present.

Wouldn't happen with street:name=Lane, street:type=Ave (since it would not 
speak street:name verbatim)

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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>