[Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

[Gregory Arenius]

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>> The TIGER tags are not exactly standard OSM tags that belong in the
>> database. Better that we get rid of them at the same time as we expand
>> abbreviations.
>
>
> Although the tiger:* keys aren't standard, the information they store is
> very useful. There are plenty of people that might want to know the
> different parts of a road name, so we should simply rename these tags
> instead of completely blowing the data away.
>
>
I agree with this completely.  The name tag should have the full street
name but having the name base and street type in there as well is great.


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