On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 3:24 PM, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> wrote:
> Saint Paul - but that certainly is an exception. > > I was using a garmin gps device to navigate about 4 years ago. As I > entered Mount Vernon, WA the voice called it Mountain Vernon. > > Albert Pundt suggestion to use offical_name or name_official would help. > But keeping with OSM ground truth, we could use the official name, for > example name='St. Louis' and name_full='Saint Louis' for pronunciation. > Is expanding abbreviations really inconsistent with the ground truth? Kinda thought this was long since settled as "no, it is not inconsistent, and is preferable to using abbreviations <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Abbreviation_.28don.27t_do_it.29>" and perhaps the abbreviation should be in "short_name" instead.
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