Hi There are cases where expansion is far from standard, according to local convention.
Here in Washington DC, the street names are all suffixed with the quadrant (NW, SE, SW, NE) the road lies in. The official names of the streets kept by the DC city government all use the contraction. Historically, I could find no maps that used the expansion. For spoken navigation systems, this is probably the easiest situation to identify and handle, without ambiguity. OSM maps of DC now just look a bit bizarre. So I don't recommend we apply this expansion without consideration of regional variation. Before any expansion scripts are run, in DC or anywhere, the local community needs to be consulted sufficiently. I think it's also a good idea for DC mappers to reconsider the suffix expansion in our special case. Thanks Mikel
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