On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Mike N <nice...@att.net> wrote: > On 5/1/2012 1:21 PM, Anthony wrote: > >> The preprocessing step between downloading the data from OSM and doing >> something with it. > > That assumes that the TIGER tags will always be present to assist with > proper automatic expansion.
I'm not sure what you mean, because I am not making that assumption at all. > And I'd rather have the US data in line with the world-wide OSM data where > it makes sense. That way the US can consume OSM US data with tools > developed worldwide, without the tool writers needing to implement > US-specific rules. > > After analysis, most of the US opinions fall on the side of no > abbreviations. I don't think anyone in this thread is arguing against expanding abbreviations. The question is whether or not it's okay for a bot to expand abbreviations. And to a large extent that depends on how accurate the bot will be. If the bot is sure to be 100% accurate, then hey, no problem. But I don't believe that is the case. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
