On 2012-05-11 6:45 AM, Anthony wrote:
Not really. Is "1515 South West Shore Boulevard, Tampa" abbreviated
"1515 S West Shore Blvd, Tampa", or is it abbreviated "1515 S W Shore
Blvd, Tampa"? If you want the answer, ask usps.com.
The only way to capture the full information is to have additional
tags telling you what the base is. And if you do that, abbreviating
or not abbreviating doesn't matter.
That's similar to how the tiger:* tags are structured, and it's the
subject of a proposal on the wiki:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Directional_Prefix_%26_Suffix_Indication
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Minh Nguyen <m...@1ec5.org>
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