[Imports] [Imports-us] Address Data Import for Fulton County, Georgia

Clifford Snow clifford at snowandsnow.us
Tue Jan 14 07:14:03 UTC 2014


On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Carl Anderson <carl.anderson at vadose.org>wrote:

> Blindly using init cap functions will mangle things like McGill Park
> Ave, McFarlin Lane, .......  Which are correctly capitalized in OSM.
> You could try to do something like
> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Culturally_aware_initcap, but
> following the style of existing data in OSM is better.
>

That is true. However, no matter which method used, it is import to
accurately capture the correct capitalization. Simple modification of
initcap can work as well as other methods.


-- 
Clifford

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