When I'm editing and area with abbreviated names (usually untouched TIGER) I will manually expand them because I agree with the OSM wiki's take on things [0]. For most (all?) uses other than rendering text on maps, the full expansion makes more sense than the abbreviation. Granted, I would rarely write out, eg, "14th Street Northwest", but that *is* how I pronounce it, and it's probably more useful for translations or other things you would want to do with the data.
Its much easier for tools to automatically abbreviate words than the other way around. (We've done automatic abbreviations for the latest MapBox map [1].) I agree that abbreviations should not be automatically expanded by bots, but it doesn't sound like that's what's happening here. [0]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Abbreviation_.28don.27t_do_it.29 [1]: http://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/mapbox.mapbox-streets.html#17.00/38.92490/-77.04019 -- AJ Ashton _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
