On 15 January 2012 14:35, Mike N <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/15/2012 8:28 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: >> Actually the script also expanded the W to West. But my point is that it >> is a TIGER entry error, and any future script needs to take into account >> that these exist and people may have already fixed them to the correct >> names. > > Agreed- if we're thinking of a bot that periodically fixes everything, we > need a special tag that says "abbreviation_bot=back_off" (but perhaps not so > verbose) - something that tells the bot not to touch the name because it is > unusual and has been manually checked.
Running a bot periodically would be a really bad idea IMHO. Even if you add such a tag, the average mapper is not going to know about it. An edit war between an unsuspecting human and a script is something that shouldn't happen even if the mapper turns out to be wrong. It only makes sense where there's a huge import that has simply not considered the abbreviations. Such an import will also affect what first-time local mappers think is the agreed way of doing things in OSM so imho it made sense to do a one-time name expansion over all highways. Cheers _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
