On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote:
If the info in the database is Alpha St then what's to say the it is not
Alpha Saint or Alpha Strip or Alpha Street and so you end up with lot's of
extraneous results.
By entering the full type of street, road, etc
On 22 May 2010 14:36, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
stick with it and be consistent. We should also make our tools as
flexible as possible, to allow people to search both abbreviated and
unabbreviated forms. Even to the extent that Saint Kilda should
work, even though it's never
On Thu, 20 May 2010, Liz wrote:
There are some difficult ones which relate to Crescent and similar endings.
crescent / court / circuit
and
green / grove
If we can't expand it, we should find out. Email the local council and
ask for the street name; knock on doors and ask the residents.
On 20 May 2010 11:01, Brendan Morley morb@beagle.com.au wrote:
Brisbane regularly have the street type abbreviated (ST, RD, MWY, ART) and I
think it is better to record the in the field name as such. Even with
accurate capitalisation.
Think tourists who aren't familiar with the way we do
On Thu, 20 May 2010 11:01:43 +1000
Brendan Morley morb@beagle.com.au wrote:
On Sun, 9 May 2010 18:59:25 +1000, Ross Scanlon wrote:
7. Abbreviations
- Abbreviations in street names are a no no. Read the wiki page at
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name, DONT do it. At the
On Thu, 20 May 2010 09:59:21 +0800, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote:
Street types are covered by AS4590, Interchange of client information,
Australia Post Address Presentation Standard.
See also:
http://meteor.aihw.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/270020/meteorItemView/long
I've added
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Brendan Morley morb@beagle.com.au wrote:
Yes, I would be *recording* what I *saw* in the field.
FWIW, I think Brendan's got a good point. It comes down to what's
verifiable. I disagree with Ross that an abbreviation mapping can only
work one way. It is
On 20 May 2010 12:12, Andrew Gregory and...@scss.com.au wrote:
abbreviations policy. It also means there's a couple of St . that I
need to go back and fix to Saint ..
Saint can be either St or Saint, eg St George shouldn't be expanded.
Hi All,
Some general observations on the state of mapping following on from the reverts
of the Perth area items.
I'm not looking at discussing these, I'm just advising that if you are mapping
then these things need to be taken into account.
1. Intersections
- All way intersections need
From: Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com
Have a look at Auckland NZ for some really excellent landuse mapping.
Could list members also please take a look at my local area (Alberton,
Rosewater, Pennington SA) where I'm nearly finished putting in all the
footpaths and land use. Please do zoom in
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