[Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

[Ian Dees]

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Kristian M Zoerhoff <zoerhoff at sdf.org>wrote:

> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 04:47:37AM -0400, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
> > I've added direction expansion into a new version, and thrown it up as a
> gist:
> >
> > https://gist.github.com/2656735
> >
> >
> > I don't treat direction prefixes and suffixes any differently- I
> > haven't seen an example where there is both a prefix and a suffix in
> > the name, and they're the same as the suffix.
>
> You might want to check Minneapolis/St Paul. They have some really bizarre
> directional combinations that could give you heartburn.


I live/lived there and will definitely be checking on what this script
does. Serge is aware of such road name oddities because it's pretty weird
where he lives, too.
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