On 16 May 2011 06:09, Richard Welty <rwe...@averillpark.net> wrote: > i recently spent some quality time doing tiger review in a community > that has a rather straightforward naming system for its avenues. > it starts with A Avenue to the south and steps through the alphabet > as the avenues appear to the north. > > a de-abbreviation bot had been run on the area. > > it should most assuredly _not_ have "corrected" E Ave to East Avenue, > nor should it have "corrected" N Ave to North Avenue. > > please be careful with these things, folks.
Yes, the bot tried to use direction prefix tag to distinguish between E as a letter and E for East and it turned out to be wrong in the 2006 data way too often. Cheers _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
