On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 04:47:37AM -0400, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
I've added direction expansion into a new version, and thrown it up as a gist:
https://gist.github.com/2656735
I don't treat direction prefixes and suffixes any differently- I
haven't seen an example where there is both a
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:45 PM, Dale Puch dale.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Clarity! The abbreviations are just that, they mean the full word, and are
spoken that way, but written and displayed as the abbreviation. I also
disagree I have never know anyone that said whatever A V E they do not
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote:
The only way to capture the full information is to have additional
tags telling you what the base is. And if you do that, abbreviating
or not abbreviating doesn't matter.
And if you want to avoid tremendous redundancy, the way to
* Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com [2012-05-10 14:01 -0400]:
I think if we were too look at what is on the sign I bet it is U.S.S.
MLK though often fully spells out the name on the sign.
I would think in these cases it should be what is on the sign. Since
it isn't an abbreviation of the road
On 2012-05-11 6:45 AM, Anthony wrote:
Not really. Is 1515 South West Shore Boulevard, Tampa abbreviated
1515 S West Shore Blvd, Tampa, or is it abbreviated 1515 S W Shore
Blvd, Tampa? If you want the answer, ask usps.com.
The only way to capture the full information is to have additional
tags
At 2012-05-10 19:40, Anthony wrote:
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote:
The only question is what to do about those cases where it's only referred
to locally as 'Ave', and the postal service would refuse letters addressed
to 'Avenue'.
The postal service would
At 2012-05-10 19:56, Anthony wrote:
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote:
But you wouldn't be confused if an stranger came in asking how to get to
Whatever Avenue?If not, then there's no problem with the expansion.
Okay, so basically we're ignoring the
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Minh Nguyen m...@1ec5.org wrote:
On 2012-05-11 6:45 AM, Anthony wrote:
The only way to capture the full information is to have additional
tags telling you what the base is. And if you do that, abbreviating
or not abbreviating doesn't matter.
That's similar
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Alan Mintz
alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote:
At 2012-05-10 19:40, Anthony wrote:
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote:
The only question is what to do about those cases where it's only
referred
to locally as 'Ave', and the
At 2012-05-11 10:20, David ``Smith'' wrote:
Third, I suggest retaining the abbreviated form in a tag like abbr_name.
Ideally, this should be the exact abbreviated form used on signs, if
that's consistent. Getting this right requires local knowledge, but
TIGER's abbreviation might be better
At 2012-05-10 09:33, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
Is this a good idea? It looks really odd to me:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/9061339
I don't like it. There are some more in that changeset, and another
previous one for that user too.
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There are 52 of these United States Ship ways. OAPI query:
http://www.overpass-api.de/api/interpreter?data=(way[%22name%22~%22%5EUnited%20States%20Ship%20%22];node(w));out%20meta;
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I understand the script checks for only one instance of the abbreviation.
My point was what is someone manually expanded ONE of the abbreviations,
leaving st something street? Is that checked for? The question also
applies to Dr something Dr previously changed to Dr something Drive,
and possibly
On 5/11/2012 1:36 PM, Alan Mintz wrote:
Okay, so basically we're ignoring the on-the-ground rule in order to
map for the renderer.
Exactly :) Why that is ok, I don't know :(
Mapping for the renderer has never been wrong or discouraged.
Tagging incorrectly for the renderer is another
At 2012-05-11 14:11, Mike N wrote:
On 5/11/2012 1:36 PM, Alan Mintz wrote:
Okay, so basically we're ignoring the on-the-ground rule in order to
map for the renderer.
Exactly :) Why that is ok, I don't know :(
Mapping for the renderer has never been wrong or discouraged. Tagging
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Dale Puch dale.p...@gmail.com wrote:
I understand the script checks for only one instance of the abbreviation.
My point was what is someone manually expanded ONE of the abbreviations,
leaving st something street? Is that checked for?
I have a number of
Since the other thread has gotten a bit long, I want to start a new
thread to discuss the TIGER road expansion code.
The current version of the code is at: https://gist.github.com/2656735
Taking Dale's test cases, I've met a new version of the code and ran
it against Maryland. (I didn't put the
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