Validator to Fix abbreviated street names

[anonymous]

Can validator do an automatic fix o St to Street etc. in future? Or is there another way to do this currently?

[Adam Dunn]

The issue with automatically expanding abbreviations is that you don't know what it should be expanded to. Should St. become Street, or Saint, or South, or State, etc.

Do you have a proposition on how to overcome this?

[bastiK]

Automatic fix is not such a good idea because there are always cases where the substitution is plain wrong. At maximum, validator plugin could detect these abbr. Then it can be corrected manually.

[stoecker]

I already does detect abbreviations.

[todd.gabby@…]

Replying to bastiK:

Automatic fix is not such a good idea because there are always cases where the substitution is plain wrong. At maximum, validator plugin could detect these abbr. Then it can be corrected manually.

Is there then a simple way once I have a selection of ways that I can confirm are all streets (But are tagged St) without having to select one, select the name tag, move to the "St" part, type "Street", close that one and move on to the next one? I suppose I am looking for a find/replace type operation.

[simon04]

This multi-editing is covered in #5587.

[simon04]

Closed as duplicate of #5587.