[OSM-talk] automated abbreviation changes?!

[Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)]

On 3/23/2012 9:40 AM, Tom Hughes wrote:
> 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.
>

Hence http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Name_finder:Abbreviations#English

Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ