First, I'm not trying to start an argument or even a civilized
discussion about our policies in this matter. I just found this
interesting.
http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1196597
is Rosslyn Station, a former railway station in Pennsylvania. The
source cited for
Hi Val,
you send the mail to me only, you might want to resend to list.
On 8 April 2010 08:31, Val Kartchner val...@gmail.com wrote:
5) Should suggestions be given to renderers to use the USPS
abbreviations?
Another possibility is to use the TIGER guidelines, if the USPS list
has issues
On 4/8/10 9:48 AM, Lord-Castillo, Brett wrote:
One issue with using unabbreviated names, is sometimes the abbreviations are
part of the official name.
Examples here:
1st Community CU Dr (First Community Credit Union goes to a -different-
address)
River City Blvd/River City Casino Blvd;
Some of the examples comma separated into the 4 field format:
South, ,1000 East, Street
Paul Johnson mentioned on IRC today the case of East Doctor Martin
Luther King, Junior Boulevard, which wouldn't work with this schema
I don't think *storing* them as comma separated was the suggested
On 8 Apr 2010, at 9:42 , am12 wrote:
Some of the examples comma separated into the 4 field format:
South, ,1000 East, Street
Paul Johnson mentioned on IRC today the case of East Doctor Martin
Luther King, Junior Boulevard, which wouldn't work with this schema
I don't think *storing*
my experience is that directional is a prefix not a suffix
I have seen directionals as suffixes, and in some cases a street will
have both a prefix and suffix directional
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my experience is that directional is a prefix not a suffix
Portland OR is full of prefixes. Seattle WA is full of suffixes.
Certainly TIGER has them because they occur plenty of places in the US.
name:nonabbrev=fullname
name=abbrev name
advatage is that rendering doesn't need to change
On 8 April 2010 15:48, Lord-Castillo, Brett
blord-casti...@stlouisco.com wrote:
One issue with using unabbreviated names, is sometimes the abbreviations are
part of the official name.
Examples here:
1st Community CU Dr (First Community Credit Union goes to a -different-
address)
River City
They say 'Rue Saint Louis', which is an alternate name for the street (but not
the official postal name) or they say 'S T Louis Street'. I think the post
office uses the different zip codes to sort things out; but that doesn't help
with street routing which can get pretty screwed up depending
my experience is that directional is a prefix not a suffix
Portland OR is full of prefixes. Seattle WA is full of suffixes.
Certainly TIGER has them because they occur plenty of places in the US.
In Washington DC
* S Capitol St SW
* S Capitol St SE
* N Capitol St NW
* N Capitol St NE
* E
It will probably take some digging to find out the full story, and it will
probably differ from state to state. But it seems that around 1995-2005
time range federal, state and local governments started to share GIS data.
As they did this they also changed their copyright and access policies due
For reference,
http://www.fgdc.gov/library/factsheets/documents/datashare.pdf
There are exceptions, but from what I have seen this policy seems to be the
basis of the government opening up GIS data.
Dale
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Dale Puch dale.p...@gmail.com wrote:
It will probably take
all over upstate NY, you will see Fred Street in town, and Fred
Street Road extending
out into the county...
richard
On 4/8/10 4:20 PM, Brad Neuhauser wrote:
For another oddball example, there are some names like Upper 35th St
Cir or McKusick Rd Ct (which are offshoots of Upper 35th St and
Using a bot for specific well know Suffix abbreviations only should be
reasonably safe. IE never change ST to street if it is a prefix sort of
rules.
Dale
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote:
On 4/8/10 9:48 AM, Lord-Castillo, Brett wrote:
One issue
Perhaps we should take a look at what a bot would match.
Run a bot that finds and counts the various matches and outputs a report
only. pre, mid and suffix counts the abbreviations. and what the bot would
expand each abbreviation to.
Abbreviations in the middle should be located, but probably
On 8 April 2010 22:40, Dale Puch dale.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Using a bot for specific well know Suffix abbreviations only should be
reasonably safe. IE never change ST to street if it is a prefix sort of
rules.
TIGER specifies which qualifiers can appear as prefixes and which as
suffixes.
Since I raised the issue at some point in this thread of whether a bot
should be used for fixing abbreviations I will respond. What Dale is
proposing makes a lot of sense.
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Dale Puch dale.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps we should take a look at what a bot would
On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 00:59 +0200, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
Hi,
On 7 April 2010 20:12, Mike Thompson miketh...@gmail.com wrote:
Having said that, I think it is a bad idea to have a bot going
through
and attempting to expand abbreviations.
I ran the bot ([1]) over the west half of the
On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 12:23 -0400, Richard Welty wrote:
i don't think anyone would argue with this. it's why having a bot
rampage through
fixing things is probably a Real Bad Idea unless it's extremely well
thought out
and comprehensively tested beforehand.
While I didn't like what the bot
With regards to E Ave Check for a base name if all is matched. If nothing
is left, leave the name alone.
I'm not sure what you asking about with Southbay vs South bay Are you
trying to figure out if the bot should add or remove the space? If so,
leave that for manual edits.
Dale
On Thu, Apr
On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 23:43 -0400, Dale Puch wrote:
With regards to E Ave Check for a base name if all is matched. If
nothing is left, leave the name alone.
I'm not sure what you asking about with Southbay vs South bay Are you
trying to figure out if the bot should add or remove the space?
Err, well you brought them up ;) But yes I guess this would largly be
directed towards the bot master.
E Ave example the bot needs to not change E to east despite it being the
first item. The logic would be that there is no base name if E is changed
to east ans Ave changed to Avenue. Deciding
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