[OSM-talk] short forms of street names

[Tom Hughes]

In message <200806241454.02282.inge at lysator.liu.se>
        Inge Wallin <inge at lysator.liu.se> wrote:

> An alternative would be that the renderers have a table of common 
> abbreviations like:
>
>   road: rd
>   street: str
>   vägen: v (swedish)
>   gatan: g (swedish)
>   Straße: str (german)
> ...etc

This is absolutely the way to do it, and is why we recommend tagging
with the full names.

Tom

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