<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I've been watching all the discussion about fixing street names, direction prefixes, robots, etc. and want to make sure my efforts don't get wasted.</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I have made lots of changes around Sacramento CA to fix streets and alleys that have botched names. N Street was mis-named North Street. And the alley between N Street and O Street was mis-named North Saint O Street Alley. As I have made changes I focused on the name= tag. And if I happen to notice Tiger tags that are wrong, I either delete them (in the case of N street, removing the tiger:name_direction_prefix= and fixing the tiger:base_name= ), or I fix them. But often I leave the Tiger tags
alone. If the tiger:name=J St K St then I don't fix the St to Street. I only fix the name= to expand the St to Street<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">What I'm concerned about is whether my efforts are going to become wiped out if some one (or someone's robot) clobbers my hand edited fixes. If I have eyes-on-the-scene knowledge of what I'm fixing, what should I be doing? Should I remove the tiger tags? Should I include a source= tag? Will this help?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:
16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I know that there is no guaranteed way to prevent future changes. I just want to know a best practice to leave a clue for well written robots, map-checkers, and intelligent contributors. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">--</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Charles</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div></div></body></html>