Re: [Talk-us] Proposal to change ref format for county roads in Florida from (x) to CR x

2010-08-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:17:43 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Presently numbered county roads in Florida (and New Jersey) are tagged using parentheses, for example ref=(535) for County Road 535. The reasons for this are essentially a historical accident. I'm proposing a semi-automated change

Re: [Talk-us] Proposal to change ref format for county roads in Florida from (x) to CR x

2010-08-05 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: I've written perl scripts in the past, but these ad-hoc changes I've done as follows: [snip] Thanks - this worked perfectly. I've uploaded http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/5406539.

[Talk-us] Proposal to change ref format for county roads in Florida from (x) to CR x

2010-08-04 Thread Nathan Edgars II
Presently numbered county roads in Florida (and New Jersey) are tagged using parentheses, for example ref=(535) for County Road 535. The reasons for this are essentially a historical accident. I'm proposing a semi-automated change from this to ref=CR 535. The present format is likely confusing to

Re: [Talk-us] Proposal to change ref format for county roads in Florida from (x) to CR x

2010-08-04 Thread Serge Wroclawski
We have a long history in the US of well-intentioned bots which end up causing problems[1]. My question is Have you run your changes across the data to see what it actually does and then reviewed the results? - Serge [1] Including my own. ___ Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Proposal to change ref format for county roads in Florida from (x) to CR x

2010-08-04 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: We have a long history in the US of well-intentioned bots which end up causing problems[1]. My question is Have you run your changes across the data to see what it actually does and then reviewed the results? Yes, I

Re: [Talk-us] Proposal to change ref format for county roads in Florida from (x) to CR x

2010-08-04 Thread Richard Welty
On 8/4/10 8:49 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Serge Wroclawskiemac...@gmail.com wrote: We have a long history in the US of well-intentioned bots which end up causing problems[1]. My question is Have you run your changes across the data to see what it actually

Re: [Talk-us] Proposal to change ref format for county roads in Florida from (x) to CR x

2010-08-04 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-08-04 05:17, Nathan Edgars II wrote: ... The steps would be to download a XAPI query of ref=* for Florida and then to use regular expressions to change the refs. I'm not quite sure how to do the latter; JOSM doesn't seem to have a find-replace function. Does anyone have experience with