[Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

[Nathan Edgars II]

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

Not quite. We have various TIGER tags that break the name into pieces, 
and allow automated expansion where the name field may be ambiguous. 
(Though occasionally these tags are wrong.)

Not that it's that hard to do a small area (county-sized) using Overpass 
API, JOSM, and Textpad.