No one pointed out any areas with problems outside the lower mainland so I only did this locally. As for an entirely automated way to deal with name:" " ways, there isn't one.
> From: Harald Kliems [mailto:kli...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 8:21 AM > Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Proposed mechanical edits: GeoBase/CanVec Service > Surface and GeoBase/CanVec name spaces > > Hi Paul, > did you ever get around to doing this? I was recently adding a bunch of > street names based on Geobase along the St. Lawrence between Montreal > and Quebec City and I noticed that there are still lots of streets (and > house number interpolations) with the double blanks. And can somebody > please tell me how to do a search and replace in JOSM to deal with this > semi-manually? > Best, > Harald. > > On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com> wrote: > > Since no one has objected (or commented) I'll go ahead with this if I > > can get it in before the rebuild starts. > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Paul Norman [mailto:penor...@mac.com] > >> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 12:04 AM > >> To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > >> Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Proposed mechanical edits: GeoBase/CanVec > >> Service Surface and GeoBase/CanVec name spaces > >> > >> Not listed in this message was the area this would be over. This > >> would only be over the lower mainland unless requested for another > area. > >> > >> > -----Original Message----- > >> > From: Paul Norman [mailto:penor...@mac.com] > >> > Subject: [Talk-ca] Proposed mechanical edits: GeoBase/CanVec > >> > Service Surface and GeoBase/CanVec name spaces > >> > > >> > The GeoBase and CanVec imports in the lower mainland suffered from > >> > two tagging errors I propose fixing with two one-time mechanical > edits. > >> > > >> > 1. surface=unpaved service ways > >> > > >> > GeoBase and CanVec highway=service ways are mis-tagged with > >> > surface=unpaved regardless of if they are paved or not. I propose > >> > removing this tag as it is misleading. To avoid removal of this tag > >> > where a mapper has reviewed it, I will only do the obvious cases > >> > automatically and review the others. > >> > > >> > The obvious case is ways where none of the tagging has changed > >> > since the import with the possible exception of geobase:uuid which > >> > may have been combined with the value from another way in a merge. > >> > > >> > These will be identified by the tags attribution=GeoBaseR > >> > geobase:acquisitionTechnique=Orthophoto > >> > geobase:datasetName=NRN:British Columbia geobase:uuid=* > >> > source=Geobase_Import_2009 surface=unpaved highway=service > >> > > >> > 2. Double-spaced names > >> > > >> > GeoBase and CanVec sometimes have names with two spaces in them. > >> > For example, "West 70th Street". I propose fixing these. > >> > Unfortunately this is less automated and will require searching > >> > through the road network with JOSM for name:" ". > >> > > >> > The edit will be from my imports/mechanical edit account and > >> > appropriately documented. > >> > > >> > As these edits will require touching a large number of roads I also > >> > propose cleaning up unnecessary meta-information from the import > >> > that is duplicated by other tags. For example, > >> > geobase:datasetName=NRN:British Columbia can be inferred from > >> > source=Geobase_Import_2009, being located in BC, and matching > >> highway=*. > >> > > >> > It is not worth creating a new version of objects solely to remove > >> > these tags, but since fixing the tagging requires creating a new > >> > object anyways it is worth doing it in this case. > >> > > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Talk-ca mailing list > >> > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > >> > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Talk-ca mailing list > >> Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-ca mailing list > > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > > > > -- > Please use encrypted communication whenever possible! > Key-ID: 0x199DC50F _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
