[Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

[Anthony]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Mike N <niceman at att.net> wrote:
> On 5/10/2012 9:48 PM, Anthony wrote:
>>
>> You seem to be assuming all the changes are positive.
>
>  I didn't take it that way - it was just a quick test for orders of
> magnitude.

Followed by a comment of "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."

>> What happened to the "on the ground" rule, anyway?
>
>  That already doesn't directly apply because most street signs are
> abbreviated to start with.

What I'm questioning is why it doesn't apply.  If the people call it
"Whatever Ave", shouldn't the data read "Whatever Ave"?