Paul Johnson wrote: > 4) Remove abbreviations TIGER imported. Sometimes, I really wonder if > TIGER was such a hot dataset to import... > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name#Abbreviation_.28don.27t_do_it.29
I wrote a script to expand TIGER abbreviations into full words. It's an addon for the change_tags.py script (http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/change_tags/change_tags.py) which unfortunately doesn't work with API 0.6 yet - at least last time I tried. It does a few other things too, particularly for areas that use the grid system. http://tedp.id.au/~ted/preen.py Its functions are: - Strip "St" suffix from grid-named streets (eg. "South 500 West") - Collapse multiple spaces into a single space (lots of TIGER) - Expand abbreviated directions (eg. "S 500 E" to "South 500 East") - Expand abbreviated suffixes ("Rd" -> "Road", "St" -> "Street", etc) There's also detection of reference numbers for US highways based on TIGER supplementary name tags, and religion & denomination detection for place_of_worship (mainly for the GNIS imported data). _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
