[Potlatch-dev] [OpenStreetMap] #3432: Allow for auto-completion of street suffixes

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#3432: Allow for auto-completion of street suffixes
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 Reporter:  Clorox                                |       Owner:  potlatch-dev@…                
     Type:  enhancement                           |      Status:  new                           
 Priority:  major                                 |   Milestone:  Wishlist                      
Component:  potlatch2                             |     Version:  2.0                           
 Keywords:  street abbreviations auto completion  |  
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Comment(by c2r):

 Just a comment...  This type of auto formatting of bulk address data which
 has been manually inputted into a large database is something as part of
 my day job we looked at trying to automatically clean.  However, the
 pitfalls are many.

 1.  Different regions and countries use different notation (and words,
 obviously). Germany and Finland suffix with a join (e.g. -str. and -katu),
 whereas countries like Spain prefix, e.g. calle de..  Just because I'm
 mapping in the UK one week doesn't mean I wont be mapping in Spain the
 next - so this means auto-correction without a hotkey sounds very tricky
 to implement

 2.  different abbreviations can be used for different purposes even within
 the same language.  For example, Chalfont St. Giles - even if you think
 you're being clever by looking for a space before the st. to convert to
 street, you might end up with Chalfont Street Giles.

 3.  the same abbreviation can be used for different purposes in different
 localities.  Would ct. be court or crescent?  Ur. could mean 'aged' in
 German or 'urbanisation' in Spain

 4.  Garmin satnavs get this horribly wrong by trying to hard...  Exit
 "East"-15 right, enter roundabout and take "North"-332

 The conclusion at work we came up with was, that unless it works
 absolutely foolproofly, it is better to do nothing than to go down the
 Garmin route of trying too hard...!

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