Opened 11 years ago

Last modified 7 years ago

#2288 new enhancement

Pre Standardize tiger input data

Reported by: robe Owned by: robe
Priority: medium Milestone: PostGIS Fund Me
Component: tiger geocoder Version: master
Keywords: Cc:

Description

As noted in ticket: #1118

For issues such as those foreign abbreviations which depending on what it is and what county of the US you are in, e.g. Camino. Such a thing may appear in full name, pre type post type etc.

Prenormalizing the tiger data would solve this and be the best solution. I don't think I'll do this in 2.1 since it requires way too much forward thinking and testing which I simply don't have time for right now.

but my proposed plan:

1) Add an hstore column (call it norm_tags) to the featnames table

Which would be essentially

hstore(norm_addy)

You ask why hstore? Because 1) I can index the pieces by key and I believe custom by value if needed 2) I expect my norm_addy structure will be in flux for a while, so I don't want user tables affected by this and hstore seems like a stable enough structure to give what I need and shielding me from this issue.

3) I'm deliberating on whether to do this only for problem cases or for all records. I want to at least start of with just problem ones so that the scan list is shorter and after some benchmarking if it turns out more efficient to do for all, then move to that extreme.

Change History (1)

comment:1 by robe, 7 years ago

Milestone: PostGIS FuturePostGIS Fund Me

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