[Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

[Mike N]

On 5/1/2012 12:59 PM, Anthony wrote:
> 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.

   What preprocessing step?  TIGER data has already been imported.  The 
types of errors I'm referring to are where you go to upload from JOSM, 
then decide to slavishly submit to the validator's warnings about 
abbreviated street names.  What person manually types 2 - 3 dozen 
versions of Street , Avenue, Boulevard, Point, Circle without any typos?