On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, David Lynch wrote: > Depends on which variant of English you're using. In the USA, the > formal rule is to put a period after any abbreviation comprised of the > first and last letter of a word, but US Postal Service fiat is that > abbreviations can have no punctuation other than hyphens and that has > generally been copied into most maps.
In Australia the periods and apostrophes are being progressively dropped. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
