At 2012-01-15 05:35, Mike N wrote:
On 1/15/2012 8:28 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
Actually the script also expanded the W to West. But my point is that it
is a TIGER entry error, and any future script needs to take into account
that these exist and people may have already fixed them to the correct
names.
Agreed- if we're thinking of a bot that periodically fixes everything,
we need a special tag that says "abbreviation_bot=back_off" (but perhaps
not so verbose) - something that tells the bot not to touch the name
because it is unusual and has been manually checked.
I hope there is no such bot being contemplated again. The last one created
lots of issues. In any case, a tag shouldn't be necessary - if the name has
been edited by a human, it should not be updated by a bot, or even another
human unless they are willing to prove their edit. I've edited thousands of
names based on photo surveys and official record research and wouldn't want
that high-quality data corrupted.
My experience is that TIGER is generally of poor quality with regard to
names, and is actually getting worse. I routinely see streets that are made
up of multiple segments where the spelling or suffix is not consistent
among them. Some of these were even correct in the original TIGER05 import,
and were corrupted since by a TIGER editor!
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Alan Mintz <alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net>
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