On Tuesday, November 27, 2012, Toby Murray wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Brian May <[email protected]<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > On 11/27/2012 7:06 AM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:56 AM, Josh Doe <[email protected]<javascript:;>> > wrote: > >>> > >>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Serge Wroclawski > >>> <[email protected]<javascript:;> > > > >>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> [...] > >>>> > >>>> The tiger.py file contains TIGER specific expansion code, and the > >>>> selection process is quite simple. The selector looks for ways which > >>>> have a "highway" key and a "name" key present in the tag. > >>> > >>> > >>> Just to be clear (and from glancing at the code), this will only expand > >>> type/prefix/suffix if it has a corresponding tiger:* tag? > >> > >> Yes. > > > > > > Another clarification for this use case: > > A user changes the original highway name tag from "Main St SW" to "SW > Main > > Street", but did not alter the tiger tags. > > > > So - if the street name has been edited and the tiger tags were left > > unchanged (and now do not match the street name), the bot will not change > > the street name value, correct? In other words, the tiger tags will not > > override anything in the highway:name tag if its been edited, correct? > > Time for concrete examples and tests. > > I just ran a test file through the bot. It had a single way in it with > the following tags: > highway=residential > name=Main St SW > tiger:name_base=Main > tiger:name_type=St > tiger:name_direction_suffix=SW > > This resulted in the name being expanded to "Main Street Southewst" > > Then I left all tags the same but changed name="Southwest Main Street" > and the bot did not make any changes. > > This seems correct to me. >
Depends on where. Some places really do suffix the direction, so if TIGER was representative of local practice, then "Main Street Southwest" would be accurate.
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