[Talk-us] Directional suffixes on roads: yes or no?

[Mike N]

On 12/1/2014 12:55 AM, Elliott Plack wrote:
> When you say that most people don't refer to it as such, that can
> definitely pose a challenge to cartographers. My opinion is to use the
> full name with the post directional and let map data users (or humans)
> choose what to ignore.

  I also feel that the data belongs in order to have the full 
information from the original source, and also to be able to 
disambiguate an address.

  Some time ago, someone saw the un-abbreviated post-directionals 
already present in OSM and wanted to remove them because locals didn't 
use the post-directional, as well as the clutter from the long name. 
Hopefully map rendering will continue to advance to show abbreviations 
in the US.