[Talk-us] note to abbreviation bot authors

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 16 May 2011 06:09, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net> wrote:
> i recently spent some quality time doing tiger review in a community
> that has a rather straightforward naming system for its avenues.
> it starts with A Avenue to the south and steps through the alphabet
> as the avenues appear to the north.
>
> a de-abbreviation bot had been run on the area.
>
> it should most assuredly _not_ have "corrected" E Ave to East Avenue,
> nor should it have "corrected" N Ave to North Avenue.
>
> please be careful with these things, folks.

Yes, the bot tried to use direction prefix tag to distinguish between
E as a letter and E for East and it turned out to be wrong in the 2006
data way too often.

Cheers