Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviation Police

2010-08-04 Thread Kevin Atkinson
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: On 3 Aug 2010, at 22:32 , Kevin Atkinson wrote: OK. So There is clearly no agreement on the abbreviation of road types (Street, Way, etc). So what about these specific exceptions. I will assume silence means agreement :) Rather than

Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviation Police

2010-08-04 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Kevin Atkinson ke...@atkinson.dhs.orgwrote: On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: On 3 Aug 2010, at 22:32 , Kevin Atkinson wrote: OK. So There is clearly no agreement on the abbreviation of road types (Street, Way, etc). So what about these

Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviation Police

2010-08-04 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:32 AM, Kevin Atkinson ke...@atkinson.dhs.org wrote: OK.  So There is clearly no agreement on the abbreviation of road types (Street, Way, etc).  So what about these specific exceptions.  I will assume silence means agreement :) See

Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviation Police

2010-08-04 Thread Richard Welty
On 8/4/10 7:45 AM, Richard Weait wrote: North Service Road and South Service Road. Romantic names, I know. Are these similar to what you are calling frontage roads? http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.58872lon=-79.57644zoom=17layers=M i certainly would call those frontage roads. Perhaps

[Talk-us] Proposal to change ref format for county roads in Florida from (x) to CR x

2010-08-04 Thread Nathan Edgars II
Presently numbered county roads in Florida (and New Jersey) are tagged using parentheses, for example ref=(535) for County Road 535. The reasons for this are essentially a historical accident. I'm proposing a semi-automated change from this to ref=CR 535. The present format is likely confusing to

Re: [Talk-us] Proposal to change ref format for county roads in Florida from (x) to CR x

2010-08-04 Thread Serge Wroclawski
We have a long history in the US of well-intentioned bots which end up causing problems[1]. My question is Have you run your changes across the data to see what it actually does and then reviewed the results? - Serge [1] Including my own. ___ Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviation Police

2010-08-04 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 4 August 2010 08:23, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Kevin Atkinson ke...@atkinson.dhs.org wrote: On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: On 3 Aug 2010, at 22:32 , Kevin Atkinson wrote: most of the times I see it name=Frontage Road

Re: [Talk-us] Proposal to change ref format for county roads in Florida from (x) to CR x

2010-08-04 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: We have a long history in the US of well-intentioned bots which end up causing problems[1]. My question is Have you run your changes across the data to see what it actually does and then reviewed the results? Yes, I

Re: [Talk-us] Proposal to change ref format for county roads in Florida from (x) to CR x

2010-08-04 Thread Richard Welty
On 8/4/10 8:49 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Serge Wroclawskiemac...@gmail.com wrote: We have a long history in the US of well-intentioned bots which end up causing problems[1]. My question is Have you run your changes across the data to see what it actually

Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviation Police

2010-08-04 Thread Alex Mauer
On 08/04/2010 07:09 AM, Richard Welty wrote: otherwise, i'd go with local usage. some places use Service Road, others use Frontage Road, and i'm sure there are other usages. Either way though, that’s not the actual name of the road. It’s a description of the road’s function. (though

Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviation Police

2010-08-04 Thread Kevin Atkinson
On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, Richard Weait wrote: On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:32 AM, Kevin Atkinson ke...@atkinson.dhs.org wrote: OK.  So There is clearly no agreement on the abbreviation of road types (Street, Way, etc).  So what about these specific exceptions.  I will assume silence means agreement :)

Re: [Talk-us] Abbreviation Police

2010-08-04 Thread Lord-Castillo, Brett
I have found that in almost every case, the road really is officially named service road or frontage road if the naming authority is a county or municipality. In most cases though, the naming authority for such roads generally belongs to the State, who gives the road a name like an official

Re: [Talk-us] Remember the On the Ground addendum

2010-08-04 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-08-04 06:33, Lord-Castillo, Brett wrote: ... Moral of my little story. Remember the addendum to the on the ground rule: In the case where there are multiple local names, then if the government with effective and sustained control of the area has an official source of names or an

Re: [Talk-us] Proposal to change ref format for county roads in Florida from (x) to CR x

2010-08-04 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-08-04 05:17, Nathan Edgars II wrote: ... The steps would be to download a XAPI query of ref=* for Florida and then to use regular expressions to change the refs. I'm not quite sure how to do the latter; JOSM doesn't seem to have a find-replace function. Does anyone have experience with

[Talk-us] nominations reminder

2010-08-04 Thread Richard Welty
Nominations are open for board positions for the US Chapter of OSM US until midnight August 13th (Eastern time). if you are a paid member, you may self-nominate at this URL: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States/US_SOTM/Board_Nominations_July-August_2010 The 7 current