[Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions

[am12]

> my experience is that directional is a prefix not a suffix

Portland OR is full of prefixes.  Seattle WA is full of suffixes. 
Certainly TIGER has them because they occur plenty of places in the US.

> name:nonabbrev=<fullname>
> name=<abbrev name>
> advatage is that rendering doesn't need to change and will use same
stryle
> as all existing commercial maps.

Actually, I think this idea of "all existing commercial maps" is an
oversimplification.  People remember the ones they looked at, which is
never "all".  I was in Google Maps yesterday, and saw "SW" in one place for
a prefix and "Southwest" in another nearby.  They have the same issues as
the rest of us.  

And I would bet money that the map makers that have it consistent, do it by
having fields broken out like the recent suggestion and TIGER.

We can't be the only country with this issue.  What are the others doing?

- Alan