David Litke <dwli...@comcast.net> 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? If so, shouldn't it be easy to somehow do a batch global
> update?
>

This has been discussed, and tried, before.  Unfortunately, some abbreviations 
can stand for more than one thing, and it takes local knowledge to be sure what 
is the right choice.

-- 
John F. Eldredge --  j...@jfeldredge.com
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to 
think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria

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