Re: [Talk-us] USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers

2014-07-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Aah, sounds like the cycle_network proponents may have gotten overzealous, then; good catch. Could someone check history and contact mappers? On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Andy Allan a...@gravitystorm.co.uk wrote: On 20/07/14 18:29, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 2:17 AM,

Re: [Talk-us] More road name expansion thoughts

2014-07-21 Thread Mikel Maron
Hi There are cases where expansion is far from standard, according to local convention. Here in Washington DC, the street names are all suffixed with the quadrant (NW, SE, SW, NE) the road lies in. The official names of the streets kept by the DC city government all use the contraction.

Re: [Talk-us] More road name expansion thoughts

2014-07-21 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Mikel Maron mikel.ma...@gmail.com wrote: Here in Washington DC, the street names are all suffixed with the quadrant (NW, SE, SW, NE) the road lies in. The official names of the streets kept by the DC city government all use the contraction. Historically, I

Re: [Talk-us] More road name expansion thoughts

2014-07-21 Thread Alex Barth
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: OSM maps of DC now just look a bit bizarre. The MapBox folks seemed to have figued this out US-wide and re-contract the road names and the directional identifiers. Mapbox has an exception for DC that contracts

[Talk-us] Tagging cycleways with cycle_network

2014-07-21 Thread stevea
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Minh Nguyen mailto:m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.usm...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:cycle_networkhttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:cycle_network

Re: [Talk-us] More road name expansion thoughts

2014-07-21 Thread Dale Puch
I see the reason for all this work is to make the data un-ambigious. To that end expanding all the contractions. This is needed for text to speech, consistent searches, and probably a few other issues. From the expanded data names can be contracted a lot easier without mistakes. Raw data: