[Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

[Ian Dees]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Mike N <niceman at att.net> wrote:

> On 5/10/2012 4:08 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
>
>> I've been testing a script to do this.
>>
>> Here it is:
>>
>
>  Thanks for posting it.   I don't see where it expands directionals; I
> don't see the same thing Dale saw:
>  "5141 instances of E changed to East" for example.
>
>  If it doesn't expand directionals, I believe that it should where the
> TIGER hint is available "tiger:name_direction_prefix".   Otherwise we'll
> still end up with endless nagging over
>
>   Warning - abbreviation in 'E Pond Scum Street'
>
>  when uploading.
>

This should probably happen at the same time -- maybe Serge wouldn't mind
letting us put this in GitHub so we can collaborate on fixes like this?
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