[Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

[Minh Nguyen]

On 2012-05-11 6:45 AM, Anthony wrote:
> Not really.  Is "1515 South West Shore Boulevard, Tampa" abbreviated
> "1515 S West Shore Blvd, Tampa", or is it abbreviated "1515 S W Shore
> Blvd, Tampa"?  If you want the answer, ask usps.com.
>
> 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.

That's similar to how the tiger:* tags are structured, and it's the 
subject of a proposal on the wiki:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Directional_Prefix_%26_Suffix_Indication

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