[Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

[Anthony]

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.)

I'm not sure what you're disagreeing with.  Either it is unambiguous
(due to TIGER tags or whatever), and therefore can be done during the
preprocessing step.  Or it is ambiguous, and needs human
intervention/review.