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At 2010-08-17 12:52, Dale Puch wrote:<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:19 AM,
Kevin Atkinson
<<a href="mailto:kevin@atkinson.dhs.org">kevin@atkinson.dhs.org</a>>
wrote:
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<dd>On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Dale Puch wrote:<br><br>
<dd>The directional prefix/suffix absolutely should not be dropped from
any
<dd>streets. Even ones that are simple straight lines that change
N/S or E/W at
<dd>a point along it. Treat them as 2 different streets.<br><br>
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1) Why?<br><br>
2) Do you live in an area that uses directional prefixes that
way?<br><br>
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Because your losing information.<br>
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.<br>
Is it really not part of the street name, what are the rules you use to
determine it is only part of the address?</blockquote><br>
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.<br><br>
- 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.<br>
- They are not in the official records - not assessor's maps, tract maps,
parcel maps, records of survey, etc.<br>
- They are not used in verbally communicating the names of streets by
locals.<br>
- In some cities, and some parts of some cities, they are not even part
of the address, according to USPS.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br>
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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM@Earthlink.net><br>
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