[Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations
Anthony
osm at inbox.org
Tue May 1 17:59:27 BST 2012
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Mike N <niceman at att.net> wrote:
> On 4/30/2012 10:24 PM, Toby Murray wrote:
>>
>> I believe It was stopped after some
>> complaints about it not handling some situations correctly. But I
>> would probably be in favor of trying to complete it.
>
>
> I would agree - there's no point in asserting that we have to spend time
> manually expanding everything, it's not adding value to the map data. And
> the bot is probably more accurate than a human, limited only by the accuracy
> of the base TIGER data - think of all the possible typos on streeet, avenve,
> and boulavard.
I'm not sure what you're saying.
Automatically expanding abbreviations is a terrible idea. If an
abbreviation is unambiguous, then it can be expanded during the
preprocessing step. If, on the other hand, it is ambiguous, then you
are turning ambiguous data into incorrect data, which certainly
diminishes the data.
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