Word tokens with cardinal abbreviations not being assigned to addresses about nominatim HOT 3 CLOSED

The full name of 'North 500 West' only shows up in the 'name:full' tag which does not get abbreviation variants for the directions.

This touches the more general issue that there is no agreed on schema in the US on how to handle directional prefixes and suffixes.

Closing here in favour of the more generic #535. See also recently opened #3280.

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I could make the argument that the United States Postal Service is the entity in the US most responsible for addressing standards, and they do have a section specifically on grid-style addresses containing double directionals here. They also maintain that abbreviating both pre- and postdirectionals is the preferred syntax here.

However, if Nominatim isn't willing to accept abbreviations on directionals, even when name:prefix is being used, what should we do with the data to ensure that we get accurate results? If we add short_name attributes to every road, e.g. "N 500 W" in my above example, will Nominatim index it properly then?

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The OSM community in the US needs to sit down and agree on how directionals are handled in tagging. The current situation is a mess and not easy to process. The Utah addressing proposal is a good start but needs some wider discussion to see if it is applicable for all of the US. I need to write up a summary of the current situation and the challenges to get the discussion started but that needs a bit of quiet time.

So the issue is not dead, just one of the bigger projects. #535 remains open.

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