[Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

[Anthony]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Dale Puch <dale.puch at gmail.com> wrote:
> As a quick and dirty test I took Florida and Illinois road data from
> cloudmade.  A simple replace of the top 7 or so suffixes at the end of the
> name an with a space in front of it resulted in over 700,000 name changes
> for those 2 states alone, and that did not include all the names with
> cardinals (prefix and suffix) that need expanding.  It was well over 80% of
> the names.  Anyone arguing that not scripting these changes should spend a
> day or two trying to do that by hand and get back to us how they feel
> afterwards.

You seem to be assuming all the changes are positive.

What happened to the "on the ground" rule, anyway?