Hi, On 7 April 2010 20:12, Mike Thompson <miketh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Having said that, I think it is a bad idea to have a bot going through > and attempting to expand abbreviations.
I ran the bot ([1]) over the west half of the US because me and another mapper in Portland, OR were tired of correcting the names manually when a lot of the work could really be automated. Abbreviations in the TIGER dataset are documented, both English and Spanish, and the bot bases on the list from TIGER docs (I believe this should have been done before the import as it has been done in case of other imports elsewhere in the world). After Oregon I ran the bot on the other states because of the comments I got from mappers on IRC. This was what prompted Val to start the discussion here. I'm going to hold off with it according to your comment. Funnily in an IRC discussion we concluded that it was nice that at least one thing had been agreed on in OSM :) I need to mention that the script is not fully automatic and a lot of names have been reviewed manually with note= tags added here and there, where stuff was abbreviated/misspelled beyond recognition. The current version knows about a lot of undocumented abbreviations that appear a lot in TIGER and the most common misspellings -- TIGER is really bad about consistency. Surely there are cases of erroneously expanded names and I'll be fixing them as they're found. Cheers 1. http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/import/tiger2osm/expand/ _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us