[Talk-us] Abbreviating names in tools

Peter Dobratz peter at dobratz.us
Fri Oct 5 15:16:41 BST 2012


> Please consider also using abbreviated names that already exist in the data, perhaps in a tag like abbr_name, when such data is present.

I prefer to use the key short_name instead of the key abbr_name.
short_name is documented on the wiki, abbr_name is not.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names


On 10/4/12, David ``Smith'' <vidthekid at gmail.com> wrote:
> Please consider also using abbreviated names that already exist in the
> data, perhaps in a tag like abbr_name, when such data is present.
>
> Looking forward to seeing this kind of conditional abbreviation rendering
> deployed in more places...
>



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