[OSM-talk] automated abbreviation changes?!

[Jean-Marc Liotier]

On 23/03/2012 13:47, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote:
> On 3/23/2012 8:36 AM, Mikel Maron wrote:
>> User chdr (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/chdr) seems to be 
>> running a script to automatically replace street name abbreviations 
>> with the full word.
>> so 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW becomes 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue 
>> Northwest. Which is not the way anyone ever writes street names here 
>> in DC.
> IMHO, here in the US we have the USPS which has published standardized 
> street naming conventions specifically using the abbreviations.  It 
> would seem to me that these "official" street names are what should 
> stick and the expansions of them should not be happening.  Not to 
> mention how much more crowded the map labels would become.
I'm new to this problem, but those possible strategies spring to my mind:
- Record only the abbreviated name and let the user expand it using his 
favourite rules if he wants.
- Record only the canonical expanded name and let the user abbreviate it 
using his favourite rules if he wants.
- Record both the canonical expanded name and the abbreviated name, let 
the user choose which one he wants.

Would a name:abbreviated tag make sense ?

Is the expanded name the canonical one ?

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