[Imports] TIGER09 over-digitizes, doesn't capitalize, abbreviates strangely

[Anthony]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:04 AM, andrzej zaborowski <balrogg at gmail.com>wrote:

> Exactly, abbreviations should generally not be used, they can't be
> expanded automatically, same abbrev is often used for completely
> different things in different linguistic environments.
>

Doesn't Tiger have some sort of "name_type" tag which lets you separate out
the name type and look it up against a table of abbreviations?
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