[Talk-us] What's up with Flint MI?

2012-05-02 Thread Peter Black
Hey mappers, So I'm looking at Flint Michigan, and there are like, no primary, secondary, tertiary, or even trunk roads. Almost everything is residential...even the main drag through downtown. I see that a lot of these roads have been edited since the main TIGER import. Is it as simple as no one h

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

2012-05-02 Thread Toby Murray
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Chris Lawrence wrote: > ISTM this might be a good "mechanical turk" application if there is > genuine concern that there will be a substantial error rate (my > point-of-view as a social scientist is that a hypothesized 1/1000 > error rate is pretty darn low, but I

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

2012-05-02 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Chris Lawrence wrote: > ISTM this might be a good "mechanical turk" application if there is > genuine concern that there will be a substantial error rate (my > point-of-view as a social scientist is that a hypothesized 1/1000 > error rate is pretty darn low, but I

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

2012-05-02 Thread Chris Lawrence
ISTM this might be a good "mechanical turk" application if there is genuine concern that there will be a substantial error rate (my point-of-view as a social scientist is that a hypothesized 1/1000 error rate is pretty darn low, but I can appreciate that some might have more exacting standards), ei

Re: [Talk-us] What happened to the license-change highlighting in Potlatch 2?

2012-05-02 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2012-05-01 13:24, Clifford Snow wrote: josm ... It would be nice to be able to hit a key to add a turning circle to the end of a way. Indeed. http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/3484 -- Alan Mintz ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetma

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

2012-05-02 Thread Mike N
On 5/2/2012 4:21 AM, Richard Finegold wrote: balrog-kun's bot didn't limit itself to highway=* ways; some buildings were changed from "E" to "East", "N" to "North", for example. I don't know if that bug remains. It has long been fixed, from my reading of the script. Of course others may rev

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

2012-05-02 Thread Mike N
On 5/1/2012 11:49 PM, Anthony wrote: That assumes that the TIGER tags will always be present to assist with > proper automatic expansion. I'm not sure what you mean, because I am not making that assumption at all. You mentioned use of the history to access the TIGER tags. If that was y

Re: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations

2012-05-02 Thread Richard Finegold
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Mike N wrote: >  I think the one that Andrzej / balrog-kun was running makes the best use of > hints in the TIGER data. > > https://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/utils/import/tiger2osm/expand/expand.py > >  It's notable that even this script requires s