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

[Anthony]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:

> 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?
>

Even if not, that would be ideal (*), and is what should be adopted by OSM.
name="Calle Quebrada" (or "Cll Quebrada", it doesn't really matter),
name_base="Quebrada", name_type="Cll" (or "Calle", doesn't matter so long as
it's consistent).  Where there is a lookup table which says "Cll" is *the*
(one and only) abbreviation for "Calle" (and only "Calle"), and is "Spanish"
(then perhaps another lookup table which ties the English "street" to the
Spanish "calle").  Then the renderer can choose to use the abbreviation or
the full name type at its leisure (or even preference setting if it's doing
on-the-fly rendering).  You can convert between one or the other.

This is already pretty much in the DB for Tiger roads.  But it's in tiger:
tags rather than being official OSM tags which people can then add manually.

(*) For the data.  For the mappers, it'd be a bit of extra work, but it
could be optional.
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