[Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

[Richard Finegold]

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Mike N <niceman at att.net> wrote:
>  I think the one that Andrzej / balrog-kun was running makes the best use of
> hints in the TIGER data.
>
> https://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/utils/import/tiger2osm/expand/expand.py
>
>  It's notable that even this script requires some significant manual labor /
> review associated with each batch processed.

balrog-kun's bot didn't limit itself to highway=* ways; some buildings
were changed from "E" to "East", "N" to "North", for example. I don't
know if that bug remains.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/44797519/history