[Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

[Anthony]

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> The only way to capture the full information is to have additional
> tags telling you what the base is.  And if you do that, abbreviating
> or not abbreviating doesn't matter.

And if you want to avoid tremendous redundancy, the way to that is
with some sort of street relations.

Each way should contain information about the way, the whole way, and
*nothing but the way*.  Including base_name information in every
instance of the way fails 3NF.