[postgis-tickets] [PostGIS] #1110: Saint Paul vs. St. Paul

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#1110: Saint Paul vs. St. Paul
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 Reporter:  mikepease       |       Owner:  robe          
     Type:  defect          |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  high            |   Milestone:  PostGIS Future
Component:  tiger geocoder  |     Version:  1.5.X         
 Keywords:                  |  
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Comment(by woodbri):

 This data is just Tiger data, the Census uses legal names of places NOT
 postal names of places. You can use the gazetteer, remap these names into
 postal names or vica versa but the real solution to this involves major
 changes (possible rewrite) of the geocoder so that the incoming Tiger data
 get standardized using the same rules as the incoming geocode request. The
 problem is that we do not standardize the Tiger data but we do standardize
 the incoming request. If you want to match you need to standardize both.

 I already do this in my geocoder @ imaptools.com and Regina and I plan to
 do something similar for Tiger Geocoder 2.0 if we every get funding or
 time to work on it.

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