Sounds fine. A quick google indicates the approach has historical endorsement [1] but could you define the geographical scope of these changes and the logic/software you'd be using to do these changes?
Note [2] is a worthwhile read if you haven't spotted it already. [1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/openstreetmap/lW7E9_-TEe8 [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edit_Policy Cheers, Jason On 2 March 2014 15:47, Frank <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm toying with automating the replacement of abbreviation of street names > e.g. St to Street, Ave to Avenue etc. It is tedious to do that by hand and > the automation process can limit the replacements to tagged 'highway's and > to the end of the name tag so things like St Andrews won't get changed to > Street Andrews! It would be used on .osm files making the changes, a > separate text file documenting the changes (so you can check), the > abbreviations and their replacements would be in a text file so additions > could be made by anyone (in any language). To upload the changes JOSM would > be used. > > Thoughts? > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >
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