<html><head/><body><html><head></head><body><div class="gmail_quote">Clifford Snow <clifford@snowandsnow.us> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I've been cleaning up are area of Jackson County, NC and found roads where the name expansion algorithm failed to expand all of the abbreviations . For example Yellow Bird Br Road. <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=35.36564&lon=-83.24253&zoom=17&layers=M">http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=35.36564&lon=-83.24253&zoom=17&layers=M</a> (not fixed yet) <div>
<br /></div><div>I didn't write down the problems thinking at first it was just an abnormality. </div><div><br /></div><div>I think it might be worth while to look at the names in the TIGER database for Jackson County NC to see why the names are not being expanded properly. I'll try to pull up a list tomorrow to see if it can help improve the expansion algorithm. </div>
<div><br /></div><div>Clifford<br /><div><br /></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br /><br /><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Richard Welty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rwelty@averillpark.net" target="_blank">rwelty@averillpark.net</a>></span> wrote:<br />
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">there's been a bit of talk about running street name expansion over the eastern US.<br />
i'm reasonably happy with what i've seen in the expanded Tiger 2012 tiles, the<br />
name expansion algorithm looks pretty good.<br />
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however, should we perhaps also run expansion over the addr:street tags at<br />
the same time?<br />
<br />
i'm becoming involved in the effort to get house number addressing and<br />
routing working in mkgmap and it'd be nice if it could be presumed that<br />
addr:street on an address and name on a street probably matched without<br />
doing any fooling around.<br />
<br />
richard<br />
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</blockquote></div><br /><br clear="all" /><div><br /></div>-- <br /><div>Clifford</div><div><br /></div>I have promised to cut down on my swearing and drinking, which I have. Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless. Adapted from <i>The Lion</i> by Nelson DeMille<div>
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<p style="margin-top: 2.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; border-bottom: 1px solid #000"></p><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; font-family: sans-serif; margin-top: 0px"><hr /><br />Talk-us mailing list<br />Talk-us@openstreetmap.org<br /><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br clear="all">You are likely to run into some local dialect terms, and different terms in different areas may use the same abbreviation. I once lived in the Appalachian part of Kentucky, and would guess that "br" is short for branch, a dialect term for a small stream. Another term you are likely to encounter is hollow, probably abbreviated as "hol" or "hlw". This refers to a valley that tees into the side of a mountain, essentially a large ravine.<br>
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