On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 30, 2012 5:00 PM, "David Litke" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I just did a few manual TIGER reviews in JOSM and got a validation warning >> that words like Street and Avenue were abbreviated as St and Ave. So I >> wonder if this is considered something that needs to be fixed? > > Yes. Rule one of abbreviations: Don't do it! > >> If so, shouldn't it be easy to somehow do a batch global update? > > There have been some limited automated expansions, though they can be > problematic, because abbreviations can mean many possible things. Expanding > abbreviations requires a bit of a human touch. Creating abbreviations in > the renderer when so desired, not so much.
If by "limited" you mean "half the country" :) Yes, there was a TIGER name expansion bot that ran from the west coast to about the Mississippi. I believe It was stopped after some complaints about it not handling some situations correctly. But I would probably be in favor of trying to complete it. Related: http://ksmapper.blogspot.com/2011/05/main-attraction.html Toby _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
