[postgis-tickets] [PostGIS] #2980: directional as a street name should not be abbreviated

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#2980: directional as a street name should not be abbreviated
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 Reporter:  robe                 |       Owner:  woobri       
     Type:  defect               |      Status:  new          
 Priority:  medium               |   Milestone:  PostGIS 2.2.0
Component:  pagc_address_parser  |     Version:  trunk        
 Keywords:                       |  
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 Currently tiger geocoder expects pref directions to be abbreviated, but
 street names should not be.

 pagc_normalize_address unfortunately does this:


 {{{
 SELECT predirabbrev, streetname, streettypeabbrev
 FROM pagc_normalize_address('41 north st, boston, ma 02109');
 -- not okay would prefer streetname = 'NORTH'
  predirabbrev | streetname | streettypeabbrev
 --------------+------------+------------------
               | N          | ST
 }}}

 Though this works as hoped

 {{{
 SELECT predirabbrev, streetname, streettypeabbrev
 FROM pagc_normalize_address('41 north washington st, boston, ma 02109');

  predirabbrev | streetname | streettypeabbrev
 --------------+------------+------------------
  N            | WASHINGTON | ST
 }}}

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/2980>
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