[Talk-us] Road abbreviations

[Toby Murray]

I believe this was an import done in 2009. Here is an example changeset
that is obviously an address import in the area:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/3407483

The import is documented on the import catalog page[1] on the wiki and
mentioned on the California imports page[2] as well. It isn't a recent
rogue import so please don't send angry messages. This was done before the
first TIGER name expansion bot was run (in 2010) so I'm not really sure if
the "no abbreviations" consensus had been solidified at that point.

But yeah, it should be fixed and it will take a bot to do so.

Toby

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/California/Import


On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us>
wrote:

>
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:22 AM, Hans De Kryger <
> hans.dekryger13 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I just came across a import of address data in San Diego. I checked the
>> data and all of it is using road abbreviations. Is that normal?
>
>
> Not normal nor acceptable. I would suggest sending a message to the
> importer asking them to stop and fix what they imported.
>
> As Serge suggested, send a link an area in San Diego with the bad
> formating.
>
> Clifford
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