On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Kevin Atkinson <[email protected]> wrote:
- On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Dale Puch wrote:
- The directional prefix/suffix absolutely should not be dropped from any
- streets. Even ones that are simple straight lines that change N/S or E/W at
- a point along it. Treat them as 2 different streets.
1) Why?
2) Do you live in an area that uses directional prefixes that way?
Because your losing information.
If your separating the elements to different tags... if truly not part of the name, it can be used for part of the address instead of street.
Is it really not part of the street name, what are the rules you use to determine it is only part of the address?
This has been answered a number of times in this thread. You must live in a place where these directional prefixes are part of the name. In most of southern California, for example, they are clearly not.
- They are not in front of the name on the street signs. If anywhere, they are in a smaller font, after the address starting number or range, further reinforcing the fact that they are address information, not part of the name.
- They are not in the official records - not assessor's maps, tract maps, parcel maps, records of survey, etc.
- They are not used in verbally communicating the names of streets by locals.
- In some cities, and some parts of some cities, they are not even part of the address, according to USPS.
They are only present in the name tags of roads that came from the TIGER import because TIGER incorrectly made no distinction between the field that was imported to tiger:name_direction_prefix, and then prepended to name, being part of the name, or instead being address information.
It requires local knowledge, but as soon as the debate settles down, I will be moving these prefixes out of the name tag and into an agreed upon direction tag in places where I know it to be correct to do so, based on local knowledge and the above-cited sources.
Alan Mintz <[email protected]>
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