[postgis-devel] [PostGIS] #1125: pprint_addy fix display of highways, routes and other pretyabbrev

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#1125: pprint_addy fix display of highways, routes and other pretyabbrev
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 Reporter:  robe            |       Owner:  robe         
     Type:  defect          |      Status:  new          
 Priority:  medium          |   Milestone:  PostGIS 2.0.0
Component:  tiger geocoder  |     Version:  1.5.X        
 Keywords:                  |  
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 To solve the highway geocoding problem I cheated a bit by just throwing
 the highway designations in the streetTypeAbbrev with the argument that
 highways don't ever have streettypes anyway that I can think of and what
 tiger calls a pretypeabrv, I essentially consider a streetType that
 happens to be in front of the streetname instead of the back.  I have a
 flag in streettype lookup that traps the nature of this for geocoding
 called isHighway.

 For outputting, I also now cheat by just gluing this in front of the
 streetname so the pprint_addy behaves right.

 I'm swaying back and forth between the decision of adding a true
 pretypeabrv field to norm_addy and changing pprint_addy to be aware of
 this field (and basically redoing a good chunk of my work),

 OR  (which is sounding pretty appealing to me because I am incredibly
 lazy)

 Just have pprint_addy check if the streetypeabrev is a highway type and
 then just stuff it in front of the address if it is.  That solution does
 make me feel a bit dirty though.  So My angel and demons are fighting
 (angel: "keep clean, everything in its proper place",  demon: "be lazy and
 just stuff the remnants under the covers so no one is the wiser.  Really
 why do we need yet another field").  I'm afraid my demon side is winning
 this game.

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