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

[Randy]

David ``Smith'' 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?
>
>For my detailed reasoning on keeping abbreviations in the name tag,
>see: <http://vidthekid.info/misc/osm-abbr.html>.  Note, I'm currently
>considering alternate views and I may propose a compromise in the
>future.

I realized after I made that comment I wasn't specific enough. I should 
have said the JOSM Validator plug-in doesn't like abbreviations, and will 
flag them as an error. The editor itself doesn't care.

One reason I don't like abbreviations, is that I've run across a few that 
I don't have a clue what they stand for. St (or Str), Ave (or Av), Rd, Ln 
(or La), Ct (or Crt), Al, Cir (or Cr), Hwy (or Hw or Hy), Blvd, and a few 
others I have no problem with, but I've run across two or three that I've 
never seen before, unfortunately, I didn't have the opportunity to write 
them down at the time, and since the letters didn't mean anything to me, 
I've forgotten them.



-- 
Randy