Add validator rules to discourage abbreviations in street names

[tyrasd]

This would show a information bus if a highway feature is mapped with a name which includes a commonly used abbreviation, such as the St in "Cedar St". This would need to be localized, since other countries other abbreviations would typically be found (e.g. …str. in German speaking regions or V. … in Italy). In multilingual regions, the corresponding name:<xy> tags would need to be checked too.

(Idea sourced from https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Glassman/diary/395633.)

[cliffordsnow]

I have sql statements with typical abbreviations expanded. See https://github.com/cliffordsnow/sql. It's not complete but does cover every abbreviation I see in the US Pacific Northwest. Another one at https://github.com/baltimorecounty/openstreetmap/blob/master/create_osm_view_pubsafe.sql

[1ec5]

Some additional nuances to consider:

• It isn’t always clear which language name is in. country-coder could be extended to indicate the default language of a country, but there are a lot of subnational regions with their own default languages. There are also some regions in which name contains multiple values, one from each language spoken locally.
• In some English-speaking countries like the United Kingdom and Canada, the local communities prefer to spell “Saint” as “St”.
• Personal names can include idiosyncratic abbreviations. For example, many places and roads in the Midwestern United States are named after Arthur St. Clair, whose last name should not be spelled “Saint Clair”.
• A validator rule would yield more false negatives on points of interest, since company names can have abbreviations that, as trademarks, aren’t meant to be spelled out: osmlab/name-suggestion-index#2701.

These considerations wouldn’t necessarily be showstoppers, but the validator warning would ideally be gentle enough that mappers wouldn’t feel compelled to “fix” a nonissue.

[cliffordsnow]

My original intent was only the abbreviation of street names, not businesses or places. Infact, business names should be exactly as how they are signed.

But street name abbreviations is one of the bigger issues with new mappers in the US. A country specific validation would be ideal. There will always be difficult cases. as @1ec5 mentioned, Author St. Clair. Those are in the minority. We could catch may street name (ways) errors with a validator warning.

[AntMadeira]

This would be a nice addition to the validator. Abbreviated street names are a problem also in Latin countries, where many words are abbreviated with a "." Like S. or D. or Dr.

[matkoniecz]

In case of collecting abbreviations it would be really useful to setup separate project (or put it into id-tagging-schema?) which could be reused by other editors.

See https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/blob/bb71ae91976ce4f16c22c7ce09ecdcc388a649e1/app/src/main/res/raw/abbreviations.yml https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/blob/bb71ae91976ce4f16c22c7ce09ecdcc388a649e1/app/src/main/res/raw-fi/abbreviations.yml https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/blob/bb71ae91976ce4f16c22c7ce09ecdcc388a649e1/app/src/main/res/raw-pl/abbreviations.yml in StreetComplete, it would be sad to duplicate this work.

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[LOVElife420]

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On Sat, Nov 13, 2021, 5:13 PM Mateusz Konieczny @.***> wrote:

In case of collecting abbreviations it would be really useful to setup separate project (or put it into id-tagging-schema?) which could be reused by other editors.

See https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/blob/bb71ae91976ce4f16c22c7ce09ecdcc388a649e1/app/src/main/res/raw/abbreviations.yml https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/blob/bb71ae91976ce4f16c22c7ce09ecdcc388a649e1/app/src/main/res/raw-fi/abbreviations.yml https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/blob/bb71ae91976ce4f16c22c7ce09ecdcc388a649e1/app/src/main/res/raw-pl/abbreviations.yml in StreetComplete, it would be sad to duplicate this work.

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