[OSM-talk] automated abbreviation changes?!

[Serge Wroclawski]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com> 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?

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest is the correct name. The others are
abbreviations.

You'd never say "1600 Pennsylvania 'ave En Double-U"

Automated edits are bad, but he's putting in the correct names.

- Serge