On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 12:33 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
Is this a good idea? It looks really odd to me:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/9061339
I agree that it looks odd. Expand Drive perhaps, but expanding all of
it looks rather awkward.
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On 5/10/12 12:39 PM, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 12:33 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
Is this a good idea? It looks really odd to me:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/9061339
I agree that it looks odd. Expand Drive perhaps, but expanding all of
it looks rather awkward.
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote:
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote:
Is this a good idea? It looks really odd to me:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/9061339
I bet that no one actually says United States
Sorry, I should have been clearer, the results I posted were from my quick
test. I just wanted to report the abbreviations I saw as possible
additions to the list in Serge's script. And to give an idea of which
showed up most either for scripting or if someone wanted to handle the
lesser used
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Dale Puch dale.p...@gmail.com wrote:
As a quick and dirty test I took Florida and Illinois road data from
cloudmade. A simple replace of the top 7 or so suffixes at the end of the
name an with a space in front of it resulted in over 700,000 name changes
for
On 5/10/2012 9:48 PM, Anthony wrote:
You seem to be assuming all the changes are positive.
I didn't take it that way - it was just a quick test for orders of
magnitude. An actual script takes more review.
What happened to the on the ground rule, anyway?
That already doesn't
On 5/10/2012 10:19 PM, Anthony wrote:
What I'm questioning is why it doesn't apply. If the people call it
Whatever Ave, shouldn't the data read Whatever Ave?
Most of the US wouldn't call it 'Whatever Ave'; when spoken, it would
be 'Avenue'. Having it expanded makes programs with spoken
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote:
On 5/10/2012 10:19 PM, Anthony wrote:
What I'm questioning is why it doesn't apply. If the people call it
Whatever Ave, shouldn't the data read Whatever Ave?
Most of the US wouldn't call it 'Whatever Ave'; when spoken, it
On 5/10/2012 10:40 PM, Anthony wrote:
Depends on what street you're talking about. I've certainly lived in
places where the vast majority of the locals called it Whatever Ave,
and not Whatever Avenue. Most of the US...wouldn't talk about the
street at all.
But you wouldn't be confused if
The issue with abbreviations is very muddy. BUT it has been said many time
that we do not want to abbreviate where possible. There are several
reasons.
- Clarity! The abbreviations are just that, they mean the full word,
and are spoken that way, but written and displayed as the
I think I came up with a rare possibility for error.
The original st something st was manually expanded to st something
street your checking for a single st, and there would be. Or am I
missing another check? I can't think of any other situations besides Saint
and Street like this. Possibly
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