On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Ted Percival <[email protected]> wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote: > > 4) Remove abbreviations TIGER imported. Sometimes, I really wonder if > > TIGER was such a hot dataset to import... > > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name#Abbreviation_.28don.27t_do_it.29 > > I wrote a script to expand TIGER abbreviations into full words. It's an > addon for the change_tags.py script > ( > http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/change_tags/change_tags.py > ) > which unfortunately doesn't work with API 0.6 yet - at least last time I > tried. It does a few other things too, particularly for areas that use > the grid system. While most of the time this would work well, I can think of some cases where making these assumptions with TIGER data is a bad idea > Its functions are: > - Strip "St" suffix from grid-named streets (eg. "South 500 West") > - Collapse multiple spaces into a single space (lots of TIGER) > - Expand abbreviated directions (eg. "S 500 E" to "South 500 East") > - Expand abbreviated suffixes ("Rd" -> "Road", "St" -> "Street", etc) - "Strip St.": is that recommended somewhere? It seems silly to remove data like that... - "Collapse spaces": Ok, that makes sense. - "Expand abbreviated dirs": This is the one that I have the most problems with. In my neighborhood in Minnaepolis, the official names for roads actually end in SE. For example, I live on 6th Avenue SE. I've seen several different representations of this, but when I ask several different mail carriers and some GIS folks at the University there, they all said that "SE" is the official name, not "southeast".
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