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
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