[OSM-talk] short forms of street names

[Andy Allan]

Indeed.

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> such table already exists for the name finder:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Name_finder:Abbreviations
> Pieren
>
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Inge Wallin <inge at lysator.liu.se> wrote:
>> > In some places the streets are very short.  This makes it difficult to
>> > show
>> > the name of the street in full.  However, for most street names there
>> > exist a
>> > short form. In swedish most names are of the form Foogatan (Foo street)
>> > or
>> > Barvägen (Bar road).  These are often shortened to Foog. or Barv. in
>> > commercial maps.
>> >
>> > It would be nice if we could tag this in OSM with something like:
>> >
>> >  name=Foovägen
>> >  name:sh=Foov (or name:short)
>> >
>> > *and* that the renderers would take this into account where it is
>> > applicable.
>> > The whole scheme is irrelevant if the renderers don't use it.
>> >
>> > 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
>>
>> I think the rendering decisions should be left up to the renderers,
>> where possible, rather than adding extra tags. It's not inconceivable,
>> for example, for the length of the displayed road to be calculated and
>> the name shortened where possible using a lookup table as you suggest.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andy
>>
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