[Talk-us] First vs 1st

[Richard Welty]

On 11/29/12 12:30 PM, Brian Quinion wrote:

> 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.
>
fixing it in the OSM database by adding both would require mappers
everywhere to detect the issue and do the right thing. what are the odds
on this happening?

fixing it in the search engines would be a bunch of work, but has the
potential to fix it consistently everywhere.

richard