[talk-au] Incorrectly expanding abbreviations

[John Smith]

On 10 March 2010 20:01, Nick Hocking <nick.hocking at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe we should adhere to these standards in Australia and point people to
> them.

Or at least getting them to tag what is signed, I've never seen a
"Saint George" bank, but I've seen plenty of St George banks... and
people changed the town of St George to Saint George...

> On another standards matter, with the availability of nearmap it is now
> becoming an issue as to whether to join footways to roads and as
> to whether landuse areas should be glued to roadwaysor not.

These are topics for another thread, this one is about incorrectly
expanding abbreviations.

> It would be great if mappers were automatically presented with keepright or
> validator output on all uploads.

Get right doesn't always get it right, and in some cases the validator
plugin in JOSM has led me astray and caused me to make errors that had
to be fixed later, I think this could cause as many problems as it
would solve.