<div dir="ltr"><div>Keith wrote</div><div><br></div><div>"Sounds like you fixed this quickly. Would you mind explaining the steps in detail you took to achieve this? Thanks"</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
I decided to use a set of common abbreviations of </div><div>Ct<br>St<br>Ave<br>Dr<br>Ln<br>Pl<br>Pkwy<br>Cl<br>Cir<br>Rd</div><div>In Australia I'd propably add "Cct" (Circuit) to the list.<br>Then for the first "Ct" which is "Court" I went to <a href="http://overpass-turbo.eu">overpass-turbo.eu</a> and ran the query of</div>
<div><br></div><div><query type="way"><br> <has-kv k="name" regv=" [Cc][Tt]$"/><br> <bbox-query {{bbox}}/><!--this is auto-completed with the<br> current map view coordinates.--><br>
</query><br><union><br> <item/><br> <recurse type="down"/><br></union><br><print/></div><div>This shows all the ways whose name ends in a space followed by ct (in any capitalization).<br>
With this map in one window and JOSM in another window, I then located the first "Ct" in the Josm window and edited it manually to be "Court"</div><div><br></div><div>Often there was a *nest* of abbreviations (St Ln Pl etc...) in the same neighbourhood, so having fixed one way I would hav a quick look around that area. and fix any other abbreviations I found. Then on to the next "Ct". I generally worked my way west to east and north to south.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Once I had cleared up all the "Ct" (rerunning the operpass query verifies this) I then started on the "St" (Streets). About30 or 40 hours later Las Vegas was fixed.</div><div><br></div>
<div>What I will now do I export to CSV all the Las Vegas Road names, then grep out all the good ones (I.E Court, Street,.... Road) and see what's left.</div><div>Any typos I've made while editing (E.G Ctourt) and any ways without suffixes will be left and I can investigate if they can be improved or not (from TIGER 2013).</div>
<div><br></div><div>You'll notice that no bots were run in the making of these fixes. This is for two reasons. Firstly I'm not a fan of bots since they make assumptions which may not always be true. Secondly, manual editing in JOSM with the TIGER 2013 and OSM data showing, means that I found quite a few missing road names in OSM. Also I found quite a few missing roads and If both TIGER and Bing imagery agreed about the road then I added in the road.</div>
<div>I also found a few typos along the way which I could fix as well.</div><div><br>Ie always found that desk checking against another source (like TIGER) and entire city results in massive improvements. Any city I've mapped I always </div>
<div>desk check against another source and inevitably find lots of typos to fix.</div><div><br></div><div>Nick</div><div><br></div></div>