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

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Dave F. <davefox at madasafish.com> wrote:
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>> 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.

The validator should whine about your data. That's the whole point of
it being there.

I thought there was consensus about not using these street
abbreviations anywhere in the OpenStreetMap data. We've had bots
transversing the planet changing these abbreviations to their full
forms (mainly from TIGER data) and nobody's complained.

It's also documented e.g. here:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name#Abbreviation_.28don.27t_do_it.29