[OSM-talk] shortened names

Robin Paulson robin.paulson at gmail.com
Thu Jul 7 04:35:07 BST 2011


is there any consensus on shortening of parts of names?
e.g.:
street/st
saint/st
avenue/ave
point/pt
mount/mt

i was under the impression consensus was to type the full word, then
renderers would shorten where necessary? apparently some mappers
disagree though

-- 
robin

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