Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviation Police

2010-08-03 Thread Toby Murray
I'm not really speaking for/against abbreviations in general, just adding information. It would definitely be Pkwy and Blvd. The USPS has documented standards for prefixes, suffixes and any other fixes you may want. 208 pages worth: http://pe.usps.com/cpim/ftp/pubs/pub28/pub28.pdf Toby On Tue,

Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviation Police

2010-08-03 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: How do you abbreviate Boulevard? Blvd or Bv? How about Parkway? Pkwy, Pky, or Py? The same road (Central Florida Parkway) has all three on signs

Re: [Talk-us] Directional Prefix/Postfix Proposal

2010-08-03 Thread Kevin Atkinson
One more specific question below: On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Kevin Atkinson wrote: On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Alan Mintz wrote: See below for general comments: Some Examples) To encode South 700 East in Salt Lake City: name = S. 700 East name_prefix = included alt_name = South 700 East I would

Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviation Police

2010-08-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:57 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: How do you abbreviate Boulevard? Blvd or Bv? How about Parkway? Pkwy,

Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviation Police

2010-08-03 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: I see these abbreviation errors in other map products. I have a navigation device that announces County Road 33 as Co-Road Thirty-three Surely we can aspire to do better than propagating the errors of other projects?

Re: [Talk-us] Would Like To Clean Salt Lake City Street Names

2010-08-03 Thread Kevin Atkinson
I'm almost done with this script. It's not a full bot, but instead modifies an osm file which I will read back into JOSM and upload the changed parts (or if that doesn't work use one of the upload scripts). Changes in what It will do noted below. On Sat, 31 Jul 2010, Kevin Atkinson wrote:

Re: [Talk-us] Would Like To Clean Salt Lake City Street Names

2010-08-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Kevin Atkinson ke...@atkinson.dhs.org wrote: I'm almost done with this script.  It's not a full bot, but instead modifies an osm file which I will read back into JOSM and upload the changed parts (or if that doesn't work use one of the upload scripts). Changes in

Re: [Talk-us] Would Like To Clean Salt Lake City Street Names

2010-08-03 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Kevin Atkinson ke...@atkinson.dhs.org wrote: I'm almost done with this script. It's not a full bot, but instead modifies an osm file which I will read back into JOSM and upload the

Re: [Talk-us] Would Like To Clean Salt Lake City Street Names

2010-08-03 Thread Kevin Atkinson
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Richard Weait wrote: Whoa. Are you considering adding a period . to the key? Might that mess up postgres? From http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/sql-syntax-lexical.html The period (.) is used in numeric constants, and to separate schema, table, and column names.

Re: [Talk-us] Would Like To Clean Salt Lake City Street Names

2010-08-03 Thread Kevin Atkinson
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Val Kartchner wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 14:05 -0600, Kevin Atkinson wrote: I'm almost done with this script. It's not a full bot, but instead modifies an osm file which I will read back into JOSM and upload the changed parts (or if that doesn't work use one of the

Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviation Police

2010-08-03 Thread Kevin Atkinson
OK. So There is clearly no agreement on the abbreviation of road types (Street, Way, etc). So what about these specific exceptions. I will assume silence means agreement :) Rather than United Stated Highway 29 Frontage Road just U.S. 29 Frontage Road or maybe US 29 Frontage Road. Why.

Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviation Police

2010-08-03 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
On 3 Aug 2010, at 22:32 , Kevin Atkinson wrote: OK. So There is clearly no agreement on the abbreviation of road types (Street, Way, etc). So what about these specific exceptions. I will assume silence means agreement :) Rather than United Stated Highway 29 Frontage Road just U.S.

Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviation Police

2010-08-03 Thread Kevin Atkinson
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Kevin Atkinson wrote: OK. So There is clearly no agreement on the abbreviation of road types (Street, Way, etc). So what about these specific exceptions. I will assume silence means agreement :) So to be clear. This mail has nothing to do with my proposed changes, or