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

[Mike N.]

> We've had bots
> transversing the planet changing these abbreviations to their full
> forms (mainly from TIGER data) and nobody's complained.

  I haven't seen any results of bots un-abbreviating TIGER data - is it 
running area-by-area, and is there a progress page?   There's nothing I do 
when un-abbreviating TIGER data that a Bot couldn’t do.   There are only a 
very odd case of

   "E Verne Smith Expressway"  -> Is this East Verne Smith, or Edward Verne 
Smith?
  "W O Ezell"  -> West Ollie Ezell, or William Ollie Ezell?

  Those cases are so few and well known that they would be easy to fix 
compared to manually changing a million 'Rd' -> 'Road' by hand.