On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Serge Wroclawski <emac...@gmail.com> wrote: > "W and W Industrial Rd" expands to "West and W Industrial Road", since > W is the direction_prefix, but the second W is unaccounted for, the > script doesn't know if that is supposed to be W or West (and neither > do I). The old script would have punted (since it's ambiguous which W > should be expanded) the new one expands the first, since "W" is the > direction_prefix. > > I think instead of focusing on these odd edge cases, we focus on the > fact that we're now hitting the .0001% of roads that can't be expanded > and accept that we're going to have to accept some small error rate, > and so instead of focusing on fixing them, decide how we want to > identify them).
What percentage of roads, where the old script would have punted, are now being expanded correctly? What error rate is acceptable? _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
