[Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

[Anthony]

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Mike N <niceman at att.net> wrote:
> On 5/1/2012 1:21 PM, Anthony wrote:
>
>> The preprocessing step between downloading the data from OSM and doing
>> something with it.
>
>  That assumes that the TIGER tags will always be present to assist with
> proper automatic expansion.

I'm not sure what you mean, because I am not making that assumption at all.

>  And I'd rather have the US data in line with the world-wide OSM data where
> it makes sense.   That way the US can consume OSM US data with tools
> developed worldwide, without the tool writers needing to implement
> US-specific rules.
>
>  After analysis, most of the US opinions fall on the side of no
> abbreviations.

I don't think anyone in this thread is arguing against expanding
abbreviations.  The question is whether or not it's okay for a bot to
expand abbreviations.  And to a large extent that depends on how
accurate the bot will be.

If the bot is sure to be 100% accurate, then hey, no problem.  But I
don't believe that is the case.