It's short for "Northeast Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard".
And usaddress does a great job on the latter, but appears to consider "MLK" a "PreType":
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In [1]: import usaddress
In [2]: usaddress.tag("Northeast Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard")
Out[2]:
(OrderedDict([('StreetNamePreDirectional', 'Northeast'),
('StreetName', 'Martin Luther King Junior'),
('StreetNamePostType', 'Boulevard')]),
'Ambiguous')
In [3]: usaddress.tag("NE MLK Jr Blvd")
Out[3]:
(OrderedDict([('StreetNamePreDirectional', 'NE'),
('StreetNamePreType', 'MLK'),
('StreetName', 'Jr'),
('StreetNamePostType', 'Blvd')]),
'Ambiguous')
Dozens of US cities have a street named "MLK Jr" and I imagine this abbreviation is common. Let me know what I can do to help improve results here.
The
short_name
of this OSM way is "NE MLK Jr Blvd" -- https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/418650741It's short for "Northeast Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard".
And
usaddress
does a great job on the latter, but appears to consider "MLK" a "PreType":Dozens of US cities have a street named "MLK Jr" and I imagine this abbreviation is common. Let me know what I can do to help improve results here.