On 6/11/14 4:33 PM, Mike N wrote: > > If you are very familiar with the naming conventions in the > organizations which assign the names, a regex might be the best > solution for you. Of course everyone is afraid of an accidental > expansion of "County Road W" to "County Road West", but you may be > able to quickly confirm locally that no single-letter road names are > assigned. > the first bot, run mostly west of the mississippi river, did actually commit a similar error in some cases. in Nevada, IA, which has lettered streets, it carefully skipped A through D streets while expanding E Street to East Street, and so forth. the later bot, the one Serge wrote, took care to avoid making this mistake. > A related issue that you might already be addressing is that the > addr:street value should match the road name for Nominatim to work. > I wouldn't necessarily expect it to match without the same "County > Road West 50 South" in both. > yes, getting them to match should be the goal, not just for Nominatim, but for data consumers everywhere.
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