[OSM-talk] automated abbreviation changes?!

[Tom Hughes]

On 23/03/12 12:36, 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.
> so 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW becomes 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest.
> Which is not the way anyone ever writes street names here in DC.

Well the normal rule in OSM is that we write names unabbreviated because 
it's easier for a user to abbreviate automatically then to expand 
automatically.

That said certain abbreviations are so common in the US that the names 
are essentially never written in full and those possibly should be left 
alone.

In any case, clearly doing this in an automated way without discussion 
is inappropriate.

Tom

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