Open missinglink opened 2 years ago
Yeah, if we can do this reliably, one character abbreviations would be a great candidate for expansion and normalization at import time.
I think r->Rua
is fairly unambiguous in Portugal, and would be a great place to start.
Hopefully there aren't too many tricky ones. Carrer/Calle in Spain and Catalonia both are abbreviated by c
, but sorting them out might be tough unless they are really strictly present in only certain regions.
Following on from https://github.com/pelias/openaddresses/pull/477 we could probably tackle some Portuguese/Spanish street prefix/suffix contractions.
Mentioned in https://github.com/pelias/parser/issues/155#issuecomment-973143976 the
pt/countrywide
source of OpenAddresses contains contractions such as this (R GODINHO DE FARIA
):