On 16 May 2011 19:21, Richard Welty <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/16/11 1:16 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote: >> >> On 16 May 2011 17:56, Richard Welty<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 5/16/11 11:10 AM, andrzej zaborowski wrote: >>>> >>>> On 16 May 2011 06:09, Richard Welty<[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> i recently spent some quality time doing tiger review in a community >>>>> that has a rather straightforward naming system for its avenues. >>>>> it starts with A Avenue to the south and steps through the alphabet >>>>> as the avenues appear to the north. >>>>> >>>>> a de-abbreviation bot had been run on the area. >>>>> >>>>> it should most assuredly _not_ have "corrected" E Ave to East Avenue, >>>>> nor should it have "corrected" N Ave to North Avenue. >>>>> >>>>> please be careful with these things, folks. >>>> >>>> Yes, the bot tried to use direction prefix tag to distinguish between >>>> E as a letter and E for East and it turned out to be wrong in the 2006 >>>> data way too often. >>> >>> i'm not sure i'm following this. there are no prefix tags that i can see >>> on the ways in question: >>> >>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/16034490 >> >> Ironically this one looks like a manual edit (or at least it doesn't >> have a bot=yes tag on the changeset and it's more localised than bot >> edits tend to be), and it's in Iowa where the automated expansion has >> not been run. > > some automated expansion has been run here. > > the changeset comment for version 2 is "Expanding street names in Story > County, IA" > i seriously doubt anyone manually expanded an entire county with 1625 ways > in the > bounding box. likely someone's own bot, someone who was unaware of the > bot=yes > tag, perhaps.
Well I know a user in Oregon who has done more than 1600 names manually and then I did more than a hundred in Oregon before deciding it was a task for a bot. Someone from Maryland has been commenting on IRC just yesterday about how boring a task it was, too. Cheers _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
