At 2012-01-15 05:35, Mike N wrote:
On 1/15/2012 8:28 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
Actually the script also expanded the W to West. But my point is that it
is a TIGER entry error, and any future script needs to take into account
that these exist and people may have already fixed them to the
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Val Kartchner val...@gmail.com wrote:
In my area I know of two separate streets named E Avenue and an E
Street.
Boston has E St, intersecting W 1st St, between D St and F St as you'd
expect. But W 1st St *crosses* E 1st St at the grid discontinuity (extends
On 02/17/12 22:01, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Alan Mintz
alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net mailto:alan_mintz%2b...@earthlink.net
wrote:
At 2012-01-15 05:35, Mike N wrote:
On 1/15/2012 8:28 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
Actually the script also
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
but overall, the automation saved countless hours of manual name expansion
for the minor cost of having to deal with a very small number of largely
regionally-isolated edge cases.
Can someone explain the original point
At 2012-02-17 12:50, Mike N wrote:
On 2/17/2012 3:02 AM, Alan Mintz wrote:
if the name has been edited by a human, it should not be updated by a
bot, or even another human unless they are willing to prove their edit.
I've edited thousands of names based on photo surveys and official
record
On 2/17/2012 4:41 PM, TC Haddad wrote:
For example: in Portland all the expanded quadrant names (NE,NW, SE, SW)
really detract from the experience of using osm extracts on handheld
GPS. All the streets in an area of interest end up looking like they
have the same name because all that fits on
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:41 PM, TC Haddad tchad...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.orgwrote:
but overall, the automation saved countless hours of manual name
expansion for the minor cost of having to deal with a very small number of
largely
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote:
If the directional prefixes are not generally used as part of the name,
they should probably not be in the name tag, but instead as an address tag
(I've used addr:direction e.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/**
Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/17/2012 4:41 PM, TC Haddad wrote:
For example: in Portland all the expanded quadrant names (NE,NW, SE,
SW)
really detract from the experience of using osm extracts on handheld
GPS. All the streets in an area of interest end up looking like
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:41 PM, TC Haddad tchad...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.orgwrote:
but overall, the automation saved countless hours of manual name
expansion
On 02/18/12 01:43, TC Haddad wrote:
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org
mailto:ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:41 PM, TC Haddad tchad...@gmail.com
mailto:tchad...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Paul Johnson
On 2/17/2012 5:44 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com
mailto:nerou...@gmail.com wrote:
If the directional prefixes are not generally used as part of the
name, they should probably not be in the name tag, but instead as an
On 02/18/12 02:28, TC Haddad wrote:
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Rich ric...@nakts.net
mailto:ric...@nakts.net wrote:
it wouldn't be the device renderer (in most cases) but the the tools
used to process the data - for example, mkgmap would do the
shortening for garmin maps
On 18 February 2012 00:43, TC Haddad tchad...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote:
Sounds like a problem for the renderer to solve. It's possible for
renderers to easily create abbreviations when full words are not desired,
but impossible
On 15 January 2012 14:35, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote:
On 1/15/2012 8:28 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
Actually the script also expanded the W to West. But my point is that it
is a TIGER entry error, and any future script needs to take into account
that these exist and people may have already
At 2012-02-17 13:41, TC Haddad wrote:
Can someone explain the original point of name expansion? Is it so that
devices that give audio directions using text-to-speech can read fluently?
Or was it really all about saving time?
Because there are other use cases where expanded names are not
On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 18:47 +0100, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
Perhaps checking if either the name= tag or the direction_suffix tag
has ever been edited by a human would be a good measure. The ways
which have been edited might need to be manually reviewed if they
contain an unexpanded N, E, W
On 1/15/2012 8:01 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
and the script ignored the TIGER subtags and improperly expanded it to
West Avenue East
I'm not sure what you mean about ignoring the TIGER subtags, but this
street has tiger:name_direction_suffix = E, which the script used to
expand the name.
On 1/15/2012 8:25 AM, Mike N wrote:
On 1/15/2012 8:01 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
and the script ignored the TIGER subtags and improperly expanded it to
West Avenue East
I'm not sure what you mean about ignoring the TIGER subtags, but this
street has tiger:name_direction_suffix = E, which the
On 1/15/2012 8:28 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
Actually the script also expanded the W to West. But my point is that it
is a TIGER entry error, and any future script needs to take into account
that these exist and people may have already fixed them to the correct
names.
Agreed- if we're
On 15 January 2012 14:35, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote:
On 1/15/2012 8:28 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
Actually the script also expanded the W to West. But my point is that it
is a TIGER entry error, and any future script needs to take into account
that these exist and people may have already
On 1/15/2012 12:47 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
Perhaps checking if either the name= tag or the direction_suffix tag
has ever been edited by a human would be a good measure. The ways
which have been edited might need to be manually reviewed if they
contain an unexpanded N, E, W or S.
I
Mike N. wrote:
Everyone will certainly enter name=Xyz Rd
for their first edit. The JOSM validator will pick this up, but I
don't remember if Potlatch 2 would notice that.
No, it won't. P2 will get inbuilt QA one day, but only when someone has the
time to do it _properly_. :)
cheers
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