[Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

[Paul Johnson]

On Apr 30, 2012 5:00 PM, "David Litke" <dwlitke at comcast.net> wrote:
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> I just did a few manual TIGER reviews in JOSM and got a validation
warning that words like Street and Avenue were abbreviated as St and Ave.
So I wonder if this is considered something that needs to be fixed?

Yes.  Rule one of abbreviations:  Don't do it!

> If so, shouldn't it be easy to somehow do a batch global update?

There have been some limited automated expansions, though they can be
problematic, because abbreviations can mean many possible things.
Expanding abbreviations requires a bit of a human touch.  Creating
abbreviations in the renderer when so desired, not so much.
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