A contributor has been creating various changesets in London & the South
coast changing names of streets & building etc. from 'St' to saint. Such as:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/171594660
He's citing this wiki page.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Abbreviations
The comment I left in it's discussion page:
"This behaviour needs to be stopped. If the official name is 'St', to
represent 'saint', as listed in street gazetteers or signage, then that
is how it should be in the name tag (ground truth as it's known in OSM).
If computer programmers (not computers) can't write code to distinguish
abbreviations then they probably shouldn't be contributing to OSM."
I think these changesets should be reverted.
Opinions welcome.
DaveF
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