[Talk-us] First vs 1st

Brian Quinion openstreetmap at brian.quinion.co.uk
Thu Nov 29 17:30:36 GMT 2012


On 28 November 2012 14:28, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net> wrote:

> On 11/28/12 9:23 AM, Peter Dobratz wrote:
>
>> I think the key word here is abbreviated. In the OSM name, the
>> un-abbreviated form
>> should be used: name=Fourth Street To record the abbreviated form, you
>> could use the following: short_name=4th St As with all abbreviations,
>> sometimes they will
>> appear on signs and sometimes the full word will be written out (often
>> depending on size contstraints of the sign itself).
>>
> which is ok, but is it documented and do any of the search entities (such
> as
> Nominatum) actually pay attention to it?
>
> and if this convention hasn't been followed, is it ok if search engines
> fail
> to find the streets because the wrong form is used?
>
> what i'm getting at is that naive users are likely to enter it in either
> form, so we
> should endeavor to have both forms work reliably.
>
>
If you mapped is as above it would work in nominatim since both name and
short_name are supported.

Translation of 'Street' => 'St' is supported anyway but 'First' => '1st'
isn't because that would require a large multilingual number database to
resolve this in the general case.

--
 Brian
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