[OSM-talk] TIGER / Mapnik suggestion

[Dave Hansen]

On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 22:46 -0400, Andrew MacKinnon wrote:
> On 05/09/07, D Tucny <d at tucny.com> wrote:
> > It's also just struck me that none of the abbreviations in the TIGER data
> > have been expanded... i.e Avenue is Ave, Street is St, Drive is Dr, Highway
> > is Hwy, I'm guessing Pky is Parkway or something... This doesn't seem to
> > follow the standard of not using abbreviations in the data...
> 
> I'm not sure whether we should be doing this. It might add errors to
> the data, since certain abbreviations have several meanings (e.g. St =
> Street or Saint). Also, it makes it plainly obvious to editors which
> OSM data has not yet been edited.

OK, shall we just delete all of the TIGER data, then? ;)

Seriously, we got the data right from the census bureau.  If they use
"St", we use "St".  We probably don't even have the data to tell whether
it is Saint or Street to begin with.

I'd be happy to implement any sane suggestions for fixing this.  Any
ideas?

-- Dave