On 23/03/12 12:36, Mikel Maron wrote:
User chdr (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/chdr) seems to be running a script to automatically replace street name abbreviations with the full word. so 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW becomes 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest. Which is not the way anyone ever writes street names here in DC.
Well the normal rule in OSM is that we write names unabbreviated because it's easier for a user to abbreviate automatically then to expand automatically.
That said certain abbreviations are so common in the US that the names are essentially never written in full and those possibly should be left alone.
In any case, clearly doing this in an automated way without discussion is inappropriate.
Tom -- Tom Hughes ([email protected]) http://compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
