Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 3:13 PM, David ``Smith'' <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Randy <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> By the way JOSM, at least, will be much happier if you change all those >>> street abbreviations (Ln, Dr, etc.) to full words. >>> >> I have my own (probably unpopular) opinion on that, see link below. >> But why does JOSM care? Shouldn't editors just treat names as any >> string and leave them alone? >> > > Presumably because if you have the Validator plugin it might whine > about this as part of its warnings. > So, I guess the argument against that is: Don't map for JOSM Pluggins. Validator shouldn't whine. As Dave S. suggests, it should accept anything as a text string.
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