[OSM-talk] Street name abbreviations
Renaud MICHEL
r.h.michel+osm at gmail.com
Sat Apr 24 23:19:32 BST 2010
Le samedi 24 avril 2010 à 16:29, Andrew Gregory a écrit :
> I'd been thinking for a long time that the OSM wiki needed a table with
> some common street name abbreviations (if it exists, I can't find it).
> When I started surveying I kept on finding weird abbreviations that
> took some searching to figure out (all the other online maps are also
> abbreviated). After months of survey, I found I had a large list,
> compiled from a variety of web sites (councils, real estate,
> universities) as well as personal knowledge. It's English, and as I'm in
> Australia, it probably has a couple of local peculiarities, but should
> probably be good for other English-speaking countries. I hope it's
> useful.
I thought the consensus was not to abbreviate and always use the full name?
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Renaud Michel
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