[OSM-talk] Street Name

[malenki]

On  30.05.2014 16:27, Alan McConchie wrote:

> Leavenworth is a former logging town that has been turned into a mock
> Bavarian village as a tourist attraction. So I'm not surprised that
> they are adding "Weg" to their streets to seem more Germanic.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leavenworth,_Washington

If they want to have the street and its name even more and real German,
they should name it "Edelweißweg" since Edelweiß in German is written
with "ß"¹, in composed German words no white spaces are used – 
and Germans are usually great nitpickers in criticizing such trivia. :)

Thomas

¹ http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edelweiß_(Gattung)