One hopes the de-Bot-ing Bot will leave alone areas what weren't botted or have no "tiger:name_base" tags. <br>Here in Boston, we have <b>massgis:way_id</b>= instead of tiger:* tags, and are unabbreviated.<br>
<br>Sadly the naming conventions in the so called 'real world' (or the 1:1 scale map :-) are not well followed and can not be relied upon. Near where we have "E Street" intersecting "East First Street", we have quite oddly "West First Street" *<i>extending past</i>* "East First Street" at an angle, "East First Street" having crossed the line of E-W demarcation, Dorchester Street, to make up the slack when the street grid changes alignment to conform to the land. "West First Street" continues as "East Second Street"! <a href="http://osm.org/go/ZfIvnO2Y">http://osm.org/go/ZfIvnO2Y</a><br clear="all">
<br>The other end of Dorchester Street is its intersection with Dorchester Avenue, more confusion. This is at Andrew Square, which of course is *not* square since it has 6 ways converging. (In Boston our major squares are not square, and Circles needn't be circular either, although they probably once were.) <br>
<br>Dorchester Avenue is colloquially known as Dot Ave, do we have a tag for that? <br><br>-- <br>Bill<br><a href="mailto:n1vux@arrl.net">n1vux@arrl.net</a> <a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a><br>