"Southwest Town Center Loop West" comes to mind as a great example of just plain brain damaged street naming Wilsonville tends to have.
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Dion Dock <[email protected]> wrote: > You're assuming the street signs make sense. Do you preserve signs with > mistakes or omissions? > > In Wilsonville, OR, there are some signs for "St Moritz Loop" and "St. > Moritz Loop". Yes, with and without the period, and both expand to > "Saint". There are also plenty of signs that leave out the "Southwest" > entirely, although it really is the correct designation for the street. > There's even "Southwest Villebois Drive South". > > -Dion > > > From: Mike N <[email protected]> > > > > On 2/17/2012 3:02 AM, Alan Mintz wrote: > >> if the name has been edited by a human, it should not be updated by a > >> bot, or even another human unless they are willing to prove their edit. > >> I've edited thousands of names based on photo surveys and official > >> record research and wouldn't want that high-quality data corrupted. > > > > For myself, I don't know how to determine what the "correct name" would > > be ... if it doesn't match the street sign, I'd be inclined to change it > > to agree with the sign, unless there's a 'note' tag to other mappers. > > Similarly, an 'anti-abbreviation-bot' tag would prevent bots from > > undoing your research. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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