[OSM-talk] TIGER data abbreviations

[Karl Newman]

On Dec 4, 2007 1:39 AM, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 4, 2007 1:32 AM, Karl Newman <siliconfiend at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've been leaving them alone so far. See my mail from earlier today
> > about componentizing the names, which may be a potential solution.
>
> I'm wondering how componentised names are going to work for languages
> where the street type is not written as a seperate word. Examples
> would be:
>
> Van Mierenveldtlaan
> Maria van Jesselaan
> Houthaak
> Raam
>
> In this case "laan" is the street type, the rest is the name,
> including spaces. The last two have no street type at all. And I'm not
> sure how you'd consider "Oostplantsoen". A "plantsoen" is a kind of
> garden, would that count as a street type?
>

Obviously there are going to be cases where this breaks down. So where
there is no street type, maybe that tag would be blank? And some other
way to indicate that it should be abutted with the base_name. In
German, I've seen abbreviations of the street type even when they're
stuck together with the name (to take a couple examples from Vienna:
Stephansplatz and Landstrasse become Stephanspl. and Landstr.) But I
think there's value here, for several purposes (including the name
finder). I know it's difficult, but we're a smart group, right?

Karl