On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote:
there's been a bit of talk about running street name expansion over the
eastern US.
By a bit of talk, I'm going to assume you mean the talking I did two
weeks ago on the Google Hangout regarding bringing back my bot
On 27 November 2012 04:26, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us
wrote:
I've been cleaning up are area of Jackson County, NC and found roads where
the name expansion algorithm failed to expand all of the abbreviations .
It might be because this road seems to have two type suffixes: Branch
and Road. But the TIGER data model only allows for one so they shoved
the first one into the name field. Ideally (IMO) they should have put
Branch in its unabbreviated form into the name field. But I guess
that would have
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:29 AM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote:
It might be because this road seems to have two type suffixes: Branch
and Road. But the TIGER data model only allows for one so they shoved
the first one into the name field. Ideally (IMO) they should have put
On 11/25/2012 8:20 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
however, should we perhaps also run expansion over the addr:street tags at
the same time?
No objection here - we can expand the addr:street tag based on its
proximity to the actual street, and therefore the root TIGER tags that
ensure a quality
I've been cleaning up are area of Jackson County, NC and found roads where
the name expansion algorithm failed to expand all of the abbreviations .
For example Yellow Bird Br Road.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=35.36564lon=-83.24253zoom=17layers=M(not
fixed yet)
I didn't write down the
On 11/25/12 8:31 PM, Mike N wrote:
One complication is hand-entered street data, which may result in an
abbreviation in addr:street with no TIGER ancestor to trace back for
finding the base name and type for a safe machine expansion.
my normal reaction would be that an expansion run
The problem in Jackson County NC is that the name field in the TIGER
featnames table contains abbreviations. For example, Mountain is shown as
Mtn. There are 227 individual names with the Mtn abbreviation. My guess is
there are other counties with similar problems. I'm not sure how to run a
query
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