[OSM-talk] automated abbreviation changes?!

[Mike N]

On 3/23/2012 8:36 AM, Mikel Maron wrote:
> User chdr (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/chdr) seems to be running a
> script to automatically replace street name abbreviations with the full
> word.

They don't look like mass automated edits to me - these are smaller 
quantities of changes made via Potlatch.   They could just be responding 
to the editor's prompts not to use abbreviations.


   In the US, there is this thread -
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2012-February/007436.html

   The consensus seems to lean toward automating the name expansion. 
And no matter how many times it is discussed ahead of time, someone will 
be surprised when the script is run (if it ever does run).