On 5/1/2012 12:59 PM, Anthony wrote:
I'm not sure what you're saying.
Automatically expanding abbreviations is a terrible idea. If an
abbreviation is unambiguous, then it can be expanded during the
preprocessing step. If, on the other hand, it is ambiguous, then you
are turning ambiguous data into incorrect data, which certainly
diminishes the data.
What preprocessing step? TIGER data has already been imported. The
types of errors I'm referring to are where you go to upload from JOSM,
then decide to slavishly submit to the validator's warnings about
abbreviated street names. What person manually types 2 - 3 dozen
versions of Street , Avenue, Boulevard, Point, Circle without any typos?
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