[OSM-talk] TIGER / Mapnik suggestion

[Dave Hansen]

On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 23:46 -0400, Andrew MacKinnon wrote:
> 
> Perhaps "St" could be converted like this:
> 
> St at end of name = Street
> St at beginning of name = Saint 

There are also things like "1st St W".  So, this doesn't work
universally.

To make it even more fun, look at this one: "California St City
BoatRamp" or "Manchester Pl-St Andrews Dr".

In fact, take a bunch of the TIGER files and do this:

cat $files | grep -v name_type  | egrep -v 'United|State Highw| St"' | grep 'St ' | egrep -v 'St [NSEW]+'

You'll find a lot of weird corner cases.  I don't think we'll be able to
solve them all in a very generic fashion.

-- Dave