Re: [Talk-us] Admin boundaries tied to roads

2010-04-21 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 20 April 2010 05:24, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: >> Sounds a lot like the IMO ill-considered road name expansion that was >> apparently agreed upon by a small group of people without input from the >> majority of active mappers whose work has been damaged. > > agreed, no idea why this was done.

Re: [Talk-us] Admin boundaries tied to roads

2010-04-21 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:36 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > On 20 April 2010 05:24, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: > >> Sounds a lot like the IMO ill-considered road name expansion that was > >> apparently agreed upon by a small group of people without input from the > >> majority of active mappers

Re: [Talk-us] Admin boundaries tied to roads

2010-04-21 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 22 April 2010 01:18, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:36 PM, andrzej zaborowski > wrote: >> Where's damage in that -- is it in that you can now read the name out >> without checking the documentation for what that funny string means in >> that particular database that is

Re: [Talk-us] Admin boundaries tied to roads

2010-04-21 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-04-21 17:12, andrzej zaborowski wrote: >On 22 April 2010 01:18, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:36 PM, andrzej zaborowski > > wrote: > >> Where's damage in that -- is it in that you can now read the name out > >> without checking the documentation for what that fu

Re: [Talk-us] Admin boundaries tied to roads

2010-04-21 Thread Richard Finegold
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 19:24, Alan Mintz wrote: > Exactly! Sounds like it's only useful purpose is text-2-speech. Here's what > I'd like to see: > > name: The pre-balrog name > name_direction_prefix: The 1-2 char cardinal direction before the root > use_name_direction_prefix: {yes|no} Yes indicat

Re: [Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions

2010-04-21 Thread Val Kartchner
First of all, I've renamed the subject to what it is really discussing. On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 19:24 -0700, Alan Mintz wrote: > name: The pre-balrog name > name_direction_prefix: The 1-2 char cardinal direction before the root > use_name_direction_prefix: {yes|no} Yes indicates that the > name_dir