[Talk-us] TIGER road expansion code

[Anthony]

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> "W and W Industrial Rd" expands to "West and W Industrial Road", since
> W is the direction_prefix, but the second W is unaccounted for, the
> script doesn't know if that is supposed to be W or West (and neither
> do I). The old script would have punted (since it's ambiguous which W
> should be expanded) the new one expands the first, since "W" is the
> direction_prefix.
>
> I think instead of focusing on these odd edge cases, we focus on the
> fact that we're now hitting the .0001% of roads that can't be expanded
> and accept that we're going to have to accept some small error rate,
> and so instead of focusing on fixing them, decide how we want to
> identify them).

What percentage of roads, where the old script would have punted, are
now being expanded correctly?

What error rate is acceptable?