[Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

[John F. Eldredge]

David Litke <dwlitke at comcast.net> wrote:

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

This has been discussed, and tried, before.  Unfortunately, some abbreviations can stand for more than one thing, and it takes local knowledge to be sure what is the right choice.

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