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

2012-05-12 Thread Anthony
Sure. Tagging incorrectly for the renderer is what "map for the renderer" means. -- Forwarded message -- From: *Mike N* Date: Friday, May 11, 2012 Subject: [Talk-us] Fixing TIGER street name abbreviations To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org On 5/11/2012 1:36 PM, Alan Mintz wrote: > O

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

2012-05-12 Thread Anthony
The examples are contrived because we're not testing. We're pointing out why this is a bad idea. Using real world examples would just encourage people to fix those examples and ignore the fact that the process is wrong. Anyway, you realize that the road type doesn't always appear after the base

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

2012-05-12 Thread Dale Puch
But Serge IS testing. He is building and testing a script that is conservative and gives feedback on what it isn't sure about. That info can be used for future scripts, or manual edits. He is only editing ways originally imported by tiger, based on the tiger prefix, suffix, road type, and base na

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

2012-05-12 Thread Anthony
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Dale Puch wrote: > He is only editing ways originally imported by tiger, based on the tiger > prefix, suffix, road type, and base name.  If all were rev 1 unedited > imports it would work darn well.  The testing is mostly for bad tiger data > and subsequent edits t

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

2012-05-12 Thread Dale Puch
He posted the script! You read thru and test it if you do not trust him, which you just came out and said you do not. On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Anthony wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Dale Puch wrote: > > He is only editing ways originally imported by tiger, based on the tiger

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

2012-05-12 Thread Anthony
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Dale Puch wrote: > He posted the script!  You read thru and test it if you do not trust him, > which you just came out and said you do not. Trust him about what? I never said I don't trust him. What makes you think I did? ___