David ``Smith'' 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? > >For my detailed reasoning on keeping abbreviations in the name tag, >see: <http://vidthekid.info/misc/osm-abbr.html>. Note, I'm currently >considering alternate views and I may propose a compromise in the >future.
I realized after I made that comment I wasn't specific enough. I should have said the JOSM Validator plug-in doesn't like abbreviations, and will flag them as an error. The editor itself doesn't care. One reason I don't like abbreviations, is that I've run across a few that I don't have a clue what they stand for. St (or Str), Ave (or Av), Rd, Ln (or La), Ct (or Crt), Al, Cir (or Cr), Hwy (or Hw or Hy), Blvd, and a few others I have no problem with, but I've run across two or three that I've never seen before, unfortunately, I didn't have the opportunity to write them down at the time, and since the letters didn't mean anything to me, I've forgotten them. -- Randy _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
