Abbreviations can be ambiguous, and I doubt that names take up that much disk space compared with the rest of the data (and the part that is abbreviated away is even less); and when data is stored compressed, the Abbreviations should compress well anyway (in fact, they should be the data that compresses best).
On 18 Jun 2014 10:51, "François Lacombe" < francois.laco...@telecom-bretagne.eu> wrote: > > Could someone precise me why abbreviations should always be avoided in tagging please ? > > I think it's a waste of HDD space and a potential source of errors and misspellings, for company names or even categorization tags (generator:type for instance). > > Nevertheless, I agree we should write Street xxxx instead of St xxx in street names. > > > Cheers > > François Lacombe > > francois dot lacombe At telecom-bretagne dot eu > http://www.infos-reseaux.com > > > 2014-06-18 11:37 GMT+02:00 John Sturdy <jcg.stu...@gmail.com>: > >> I reckon that if it isn't an abbreviation for any extant longer name, it is no longer an abbreviation, and has become the full name in its own right. >> >> On 18 Jun 2014 10:06, "Pieren" <pier...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> After a quick search: >>> http://web.archive.org/web/20011218005945/http://www.kwtv.com/news/strange/ixl.htm >>> >>> it seems that the name **is** an abbreviation (and "for what" is >>> lost), in which case you don't have to expand it. (perhaps add a tag >>> "note" to explain the case...) >>> >>> Pieren >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tagging mailing list >>> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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