[Talk-us] More road name expansion thoughts

[Alex Barth]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > OSM maps of DC now just look a bit bizarre.
>
> The MapBox folks seemed to have figued this out US-wide and
> re-contract the road names and the directional identifiers.


Mapbox has an exception for DC that contracts names.

While I agree with the paradigm to manage data in a way that is conducive
for consuming it, you can use it to construe the argument for _and_ against
expansion of DC-like abbreviations (NW, NE, SW, SE quadrants).

- If you expand DC-like abbreviations, then you need to contract them when
making a map. Now how do you find out systematically which ones are the
DC-like abbreviations you need to contract on a global map?
- Say you contracted DC-like abbreviations, now you need to somehow find
out how to feed them into text to speech.

Agreed that DC map looks odd now on OSM.
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