[Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

[Anthony]

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 4:21 PM, andrzej zaborowski <balrogg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11 May 2012 22:17, Dale Puch <dale.puch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I understand the script checks for only one instance of the abbreviation.
>> My point was what is someone manually expanded ONE of the abbreviations,
>> leaving "st something street"?  Is that checked for?  The question also
>> applies to "Dr something Dr" previously changed to "Dr something Drive", and
>> possibly directionals as well.  Serge seems to be doing a good job with
>> this, and this is just feedback so there aren't any incorrect expansions.
>
> The way the old script deals with those, is it has a list of
> abbreviations that come as a suffix and those that come as a prefix,
> from the TIGER documentation.

What about "Avenue", which comes as both?

> It checks suffixes starting from the
> end, so if you have "St something St E" or "St something St East",
> it'll only check "E" or "East" and then "St" and then stop because
> "something" is not a known suffix.

How does it handle "Avenue N" and "Avenue S"?