[Talk-us] First vs 1st

[Minh Nguyen]

On 2012-11-27 8:55 AM, Richard Welty wrote:
> there's a neighborhood in Rotterdam, NY where the signs for the side
> streets along the main drag (Hamburg Street) are spelled out (e.g.,
> Fourth Street)
> but the signs interior to the neighborhood are abbreviated (e.g., 4th
> Street.)

Along these lines, at least part of San Jose, CA, spells out 
even-numbered streets but abbreviates odd-numbered ones. Maybe that 
helps folks who learned their numbers but not their numerals? :-)

In Cincinnati, I include the abbreviated form in `name` and the 
spelled-out form in `alt_name`. (Where street signs spell out the 
ordinals, I guess I'd swap the two tags.) I used to always spell out the 
ordinals, for consistency with the "no abbreviations" guideline, but 
that caused too many street names to fall off the map in cluttered 
downtown areas, and Nominatim didn't translate between the two forms.

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