[OSM-talk] automated abbreviation changes?!

[Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)]

IMHO, here in the US we have the USPS which has published standardized 
street naming conventions specifically using the abbreviations.  It 
would seem to me that these "official" street names are what should 
stick and the expansions of them should not be happening.  Not to 
mention how much more crowded the map labels would become.

Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ

On 3/23/2012 8:36 AM, Mikel Maron wrote:
> Hi
>
> User chdr (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/chdr) seems to be running 
> a script to automatically replace street name abbreviations with the 
> full word.
> so 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW becomes 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue 
> Northwest. Which is not the way anyone ever writes street names here 
> in DC.
>
> Anyone else aware of this? Opinions? Should this be stopped?
>
> -Mikel
> * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
>
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