Re: [talk-au] Street Abbv. patch for validator plugin

2009-07-08 Thread John Smith
--- On Tue, 7/7/09, Rick Peterson ausr...@iinet.net.au wrote: I usually err on caution's side and run with the  tested version of this kind of fast developing software, however I'm keen to make use of all the new features and work everyone has been putting in. I was hoping some more of

Re: [talk-au] Street Abbv. patch for validator plugin

2009-07-08 Thread Sam Couter
John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: Java flavoured, and I'm not talking about tasting coffee here :) Java regexes are almost Perl-compatible regexes (PCRE). You are probably correct, it's taken me a number of years to get my head round regex for the amount I dabble in at present, and I

Re: [talk-au] Street Abbv. patch for validator plugin

2009-07-08 Thread John Smith
--- On Wed, 8/7/09, Sam Couter s...@couter.id.au wrote: Some people, when confronted with a problem, think I know, I'll use regular expressions.  Now they have two problems.   -- Jamie Zawinski in comp.emacs.xemacs The regex functionality was already in place, all I was trying to do was

Re: [talk-au] Street Abbv. patch for validator plugin

2009-07-07 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, John Smith wrote: They were after Circular Quay in Sydney, they just pronounced it how it's spelt, not how it's written thanks to French influences on the English language. yes, but for an american tour guide i could have sent them off to oxford street darlinghurst for an

Re: [talk-au] Street Abbv. patch for validator plugin

2009-07-07 Thread Rick Peterson
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: -- A day for firm decisions! Or is it? That got quite a chuckle going here love it !! :D ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Street Abbv. patch for validator plugin

2009-07-07 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Rick Peterson wrote: -- A day for firm decisions! Or is it? That got quite a chuckle going here love it !! :D The program is called 'fortune'. It is a BSD program, and it does not work on Windows (I see Rick is using Thunderbird on Windows). Now if I was using

Re: [talk-au] Street Abbv. patch for validator plugin

2009-07-07 Thread John Smith
--- On Tue, 7/7/09, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: friends. I've had trouble enough with some over-sensitive Americans on a weather station email list who had an objection to one randomly chosen phrase, so I'm a little more cautious now. Oh c'mon you can't leave us hanging like

Re: [talk-au] Street Abbv. patch for validator plugin

2009-07-07 Thread Neale
On 7/07/2009 2:33 PM, John Smith wrote: --- On Tue, 7/7/09, Darrin Smith bel...@beldin.org wrote: How about Tce for Terrace Also, and Drv for Drive, Cct for Circuit - I've seen these around the place. Wy for Way, Mw for Mews I've also seen on signs but never anyone use.

Re: [talk-au] Street Abbv. patch for validator plugin

2009-07-07 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, John Smith wrote: Oh c'mon you can't leave us hanging like that, do tell us what it was :) It was something about Marines in which the war cry or similar had an addendum which noted that most were going to the cemetery -- You're currently going through a difficult

Re: [talk-au] Street Abbv. patch for validator plugin

2009-07-07 Thread John Smith
The JOSM developers have basically forced anyone wanting to use JOSM and download any plugins to upgrade, because they don't pull various revisions of plugins that match the JOSM build from their server. This is an over sight I'm sure, but yea, you will have to upgrade at some point due to

[talk-au] Street Abbv. patch for validator plugin

2009-07-06 Thread John Smith
In the tagchecker.cfg and in the mirror_tagchecker.cfg after it gets saved locally, there is a check for Str.. I've extended this for common abbreviations I could, just wondering if there are others people see and/or know of that I can add to a bug request. So far I have Cres, Cl, Ct, Ln, Pl,

Re: [talk-au] Street Abbv. patch for validator plugin

2009-07-06 Thread John Smith
--- On Tue, 7/7/09, Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com wrote: Cr (Crescent) (a bad alternate - to many possibilities) I'm not trying to apply an automatic fix, just have warnings thrown so it doesn't matter what Cr means, as long as there is a valid warning shown it can be up to those entering to

Re: [talk-au] Street Abbv. patch for validator plugin

2009-07-06 Thread John Smith
--- On Tue, 7/7/09, John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: I've added your suggestions into the mix and here's the updated list. I probably should not that even though they're being entered as St for example, it will still catch st or sT or ST as case is ignored.