Catch abbreviations in street names

[1ec5]

OpenStreetMap has a strongly held rule against abbreviations, but sometimes abbreviations slip through. In some cases, new users haven’t been made aware of this rule; in other cases, the TIGER expansion bot missed some abbreviations. This tool should catch the abbreviations so that they can be expanded by bot or by hand.

It’s important that the tool be language aware: as a starting point, it could look for English abbreviations in English-speaking regions only, then expand to other regions as lists of abbreviations are compiled for more languages.

/cc @srividyacb

[Rub21]

Good!! once you identify those, and easy way to fix those issues: That is for Peru abbreviations https://gist.github.com/Rub21/cc055320c925c855926e

cc. @maning

[1ec5]

More sources of abbreviations:

https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-text-instructions/tree/master/languages/abbreviations/ https://github.com/mapbox/geocoder-abbreviations/ https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Name_finder:Abbreviations