On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Alex Barth <[email protected]> wrote: > Serge - > > Awesome effort, thanks for starting this. > > - You are planning to run this script on all TIGER data in OSM, i. e. the > entire US, correct?
Yes, I have a planned bounding box that includes the entire continental US, and then Alaska and Hawaii. The reason to run this on the entire US is that in testing, I found ~20k ways expanded on the West Coast. > - Are you envisioning a (geographically) limited first run with and a review > phase? If so, how will this look like? I've run this on test data from Geofabrik of the entire US. I can re-run that at any time. > - Will any highway data that has been modified post-import be touched? I'm > trying to ask the same question as Brian May did with the '"Main St SW" to > "SW Main Street"' example. That's not quite the same question as Brian's question- and we can discuss that question separately, but the answer is that in my experience with the OSM data, there are lots (tens of thousands) of ways which have been touched by one or another editor, but which still have original names, so yes, it makes sense to expand all ways. As for Brian's question, the problem with it is that it's a multi-part question, so let me break it down a bit. As you said, the original name in this theoretical example would be "Main St SW" and is now "SW Main Street". The reason I asked for an example of this is for two reasons: 1. I've gone through the results of the expansion bot- in detail for some places (Maryland, Virginia and New York) and browsing for other places, and I haven't seen that kind of thing. 2. Given that exact situation, a human editor like myself would be inclined to expand the revised name to "Southwest Main Street"- so this opens up a can of worms of "What is the right answer?" - in this case, I think if the script expanded the direction tag, then it doesn't matter if it's moved the location in the string. On the other hand, if the new name were "Main Street NW" - then the script would do nothing, because no direction tag of NW would be present. This is a tricky situation, and deserves some real consideration, and once we come up with a consensus of the right answer, it can be codified. - Serge _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
