[OSM-newbies] Separating streets that don't join

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab at gmail.com
Sun Nov 1 15:23:57 GMT 2009


On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 3:13 PM, David ``Smith'' <vidthekid at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Randy <rwtnospam-newsgp at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> By the way JOSM, at least, will be much happier if you change all those
>> street abbreviations (Ln, Dr, etc.) to full words.
>
> I have my own (probably unpopular) opinion on that, see link below.
> But why does JOSM care?  Shouldn't editors just treat names as any
> string and leave them alone?

Presumably because if you have the Validator plugin it might whine
about this as part of its warnings.




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