<div dir="ltr"><div>G'day Justin & welcome!</div><div><br></div><div>Asking any question that you've got is quite definitely the best way of doing things - thanks!</div><div><br></div><div>I agree fully about the acronyms rather than spelling the name in full, with the exception that I personally use Qld rather than QLD.</div><div><br></div><div>If I was down there, I'd probably also use Tas, but all capitals for the others. <br></div><div><br></div><div>I don't think there's any hard & fast rules for capitalisation though?</div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Thanks<div><br></div><div>Graeme</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 30 Jan 2022 at 00:32, tabjsina <<a href="mailto:sinatabrizi@gmail.com">sinatabrizi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br>
<br>
I'm new to this mailing list (and mailing lists in general), apologies <br>
if I'm doing it wrong :)<br>
<br>
I've recently made a maproulette challenge which asked users to confirm <br>
updating any populating addr:state value in Western Australia to "WA", <br>
if it was something else. Previously, about 90% were already "WA", 9% <br>
were a variation like "Western Australia", "wa" (lowercase), and the <br>
remaining were something completely wrong, like "AU" or a suburb/city name.<br>
<br>
Now that WA is all fixed, I was looking at other states, and noticed <br>
that, while most states also had a similar 90% rate of using acronym, <br>
NSW and moreso VIC had a closer split between the acronym and the full name.<br>
<br>
Before I go ahead with setting up this maproulette challenge for the <br>
rest of the country, I wanted to get some thoughts on whether it makes <br>
sense to standardize around using acronyms (WA, ACT, NSW, NT, QLD, VIC, <br>
SA, TAS), full name (Western Australia, Australian Capital Territory, <br>
etc), or whether we should not be trying to standardise this value at all.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Justin<br>
<br>
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