On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:52 PM, andrzej zaborowski <balr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27 November 2012 03:53, Serge Wroclawski <emac...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> 
>> wrote:
>>> I did look at your tiger.py script. I think br might also stand for branch
>>> as well as bridge. Also, I've seen mtn for Mountain.
>>
>> How would one determine whether a br would be bridge or branch? If we
>> can't, then the script can't expand it.
>
> In the TIGER docs br is only for "branch", though there may be cases
> that deviate from this.

Yeah, bridge is "Brg"

You can see all the abbreviations in "Appendix B" starting on page 271
of this document:
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tiger2006se/TGR06SE.pdf

I pulled the 2011 version out into a CSV file to use in my ogr2osm translation:
https://github.com/ToeBee/ogr2osm-translations/blob/master/tiger2011_abbrev.csv

Toby

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