[talk-au] Automating the replacement of abbreviation of street names

[SomeoneElse]

Frank wrote:
> I'm toying with automating the replacement of abbreviation of street 
> names e.g. St to Street, Ave to Avenue etc.

I think that people in the USA had similar issues with TIGER data and 
created a bunch of tools to do the conversions.  It might be worth 
asking somewhere that USA folks hang out about it (maybe talk@ or #osm 
on IRC).

Cheers,

Andy