[Talk-us] name expansion bot (Re: Imports information on the wiki)

Nathan Edgars II neroute2 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 15 13:28:07 GMT 2012


On 1/15/2012 8:25 AM, Mike N wrote:
> On 1/15/2012 8:01 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
>> and the script ignored the TIGER subtags and improperly expanded it to
>> West Avenue East
>
> I'm not sure what you mean about ignoring the TIGER subtags, but this
> street has "tiger:name_direction_suffix = E", which the script used to
> expand the name. In my opinion, it's just a TIGER data entry error.

Actually the script also expanded the W to West. But my point is that it 
is a TIGER entry error, and any future script needs to take into account 
that these exist and people may have already fixed them to the correct 
names.



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