[Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

[Serge Wroclawski]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 6:08 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.

It doesn't expand directionals, and it only touches ways with tiger
tags, so I suspect Dale is looking at the wrong code, or the wrong
output, or something else.

>  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

Okay, let's talk about this then. It was originally outside the scope
of our discussion, but I'm happy to add it- it won't be more than a
another few lines of code and another lookup table.

>   Warning - abbreviation in 'E Pond Scum Street'
>
>  when uploading.

Please do not upload the output!

1. We should all agree on the correct output.
2. We should organize the right account to upload with.
3. We should add tags to the uploaded changesets.

- Serge