<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Paul Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:baloo@ursamundi.org" target="_blank">baloo@ursamundi.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On Aug 8, 2013 9:42 PM, "Toby Murray" <<a href="mailto:toby.murray@gmail.com" target="_blank">toby.murray@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> [As an aside, the 'N' and 'E' on Douglas County roads do *not* stand for 'North' or 'East,']<br>
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</div><p dir="ltr">Well, it does, since they're defining range and plat, but you're correct that it's not expanded or assumed by anyone but surveyors. </p><div class="im">
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> TIGER didn't get the memo apparently</p>
</div><p dir="ltr">Actually, that may have been the abbreviation bot that ran last year if these county roads had the ref incorrectly in the name field instead of ref when it ran through. </p>
</blockquote><div>Nope. This being Kansas, they were expanded by the bot that ran several years ago and was stopped at about the Mississippi. But the ways in question did have a tiger:name_direction_prefix tag on them.</div>
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