Perhaps we should take a look at what a bot would match. Run a bot that finds and counts the various matches and outputs a report only. pre, mid and suffix counts the abbreviations. and what the bot would expand each abbreviation to. Abbreviations in the middle should be located, but probably not changed by the bot. The pre and suffix ones should be pretty safe. Then start to decide which would be safe to run based on the results. If this can be done by state or perhaps even county all the better to minimize issues with local standards. Anything that might be questionable we would want to manually look at the current names and results. Having a link to a potlatch view or josm shortcut would be all the better.
Let the bot run on the safer choices, the rest we would have a list to manually check and edit if needed. Similar to what was done with motorway links. Yes there will be mistakes, but stuff like having two streets with 'saint louis street' and 'st louis street' names is only going to be fixable by locals IMO Then again how much different is that from two streets with the same name in adjacent towns? Unless the city and zip are the same, what will it really matter? Dale On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Richard Welty <rwe...@averillpark.net>wrote: > all over upstate NY, you will see "Fred Street" in town, and "Fred > Street Road" extending > out into the county... > > richard > > On 4/8/10 4:20 PM, Brad Neuhauser wrote: > > For another oddball example, there are some names like "Upper 35th St > > Cir" or "McKusick Rd Ct" (which are offshoots of Upper 35th St and > > McKusick Rd, respectively) in some Minnesota suburbs. > > > > Brad > > > > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Mike Thompson<miketh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >>> > >>>> my experience is that directional is a prefix not a suffix > >>>> > >>> Portland OR is full of prefixes. Seattle WA is full of suffixes. > >>> Certainly TIGER has them because they occur plenty of places in the US. > >>> > >> In Washington DC > >> * S Capitol St SW > >> * S Capitol St SE > >> * N Capitol St NW > >> * N Capitol St NE > >> * E Capitol St SE > >> * E Capitol St NE > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Talk-us mailing list > >> Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-us mailing list > > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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