[postgis-devel] [PostGIS] #1333: Support geocoding of cross streets

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#1333: Support geocoding of cross streets
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 Reporter:  arencambre      |       Owner:  robe         
     Type:  enhancement     |      Status:  assigned     
 Priority:  medium          |   Milestone:  PostGIS 2.0.0
Component:  tiger geocoder  |     Version:  trunk        
 Keywords:                  |  
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Changes (by woodbri):

 * cc: woodbri (added)


Comment:

 I do not recommend using an '&' character as the intersection indicator
 from the point of view that the Tiger data does have street names the
 contain an '&' character like "B & O", "Tom & Ann" or something like that,
 and others. I already did this analysis when looking at PAGC geocoder and
 Tiger data. You will also find the word "and" in some street names so that
 is not good as a separator either. In PAGC I arbitrarily pick the '@'
 character as it is not used in the Tiger data and it reads as "street a
 (at) street b" which seems as good as any definition for an intersection.

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