On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Mike N <nice...@att.net> wrote: > On 5/1/2012 12:59 PM, Anthony wrote: >> >> I'm not sure what you're saying. >> >> Automatically expanding abbreviations is a terrible idea. If an >> abbreviation is unambiguous, then it can be expanded during the >> preprocessing step. If, on the other hand, it is ambiguous, then you >> are turning ambiguous data into incorrect data, which certainly >> diminishes the data. > > > What preprocessing step?
The preprocessing step between downloading the data from OSM and doing something with it. What that is differs between applications. In many applications it is called osm2pgsql. > The types > of errors I'm referring to are where you go to upload from JOSM, then decide > to slavishly submit to the validator's warnings about abbreviated street > names. What person manually types 2 - 3 dozen versions of Street , Avenue, > Boulevard, Point, Circle without any typos? Typos are much easier to fix than improper "abbreviation expansions". _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
