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

[Dave F.]

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> 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.
>   
So, I guess the argument against that is: Don't map for JOSM Pluggins.
Validator shouldn't whine. As Dave S. suggests, it should accept 
anything as a text string.

Cheers
Dave F.