[Talk-us] State abbreviations

[Richard Weait]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Toby Murray <toby.murray at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was commenting the other day on IRC that nominatim only worked on my
> address if I used "Kansas" but not "KS" as most people would. twain
> happened to be on and commented that a ref=KS tag on the state
> boundary would probably fix this. I checked and there are currently no
> state boundary relations with a ref=* tag. It seems like a decent idea
> to add them and it would obviously be trivial to do so with a few
> minutes work but I figured a change that affects the whole country
> should probably be mentioned on the mailing list first. Comments?

Aren't the abbreviations already on the place (State) nodes?  Better
to not put them in two places, right?  Somebody want to double check
my memory?
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=38.3&lon=-98.5&zoom=4&layers=B000FTF