[Imports] Mass fixing street names in Queensland Australia

[Daniel O'Connor]

In sa we are rendering images via qgis and manually mass updating - @Alex
On 19/03/2014 11:11 PM, "Serge Wroclawski" <emacsen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Benjamin,
>
> Doing mass tagging or mass renaming is quite a difficult process in
> OSM. I did a more modest mass tagging change last year, renaming
> millions of road names in the US from "Rd" to "Road", and that process
> took almost six months of discussion and debate before it was
> approved, and what was eventually approved was a far more modest
> proposal than I'd hoped.
>
> To do the kind of work that you're proposing in an automated way would
> require a lot of analysis and work generally. If you're talking about
> millions of roads, in a process that is very testable and highly
> automatable, then I suggest you continue down this road, but use the
> import community to test your code and process.
>
> If not, then I suggest a more modest process of using either the OSM
> Tasking Manager[1], or Maproulette to manage this process.
>
> - Serge
>
>
> [1] The official name for the tasking manager is the OSM Tasking
> Manager, not the HOT Tasking Manager. The HOT Tasking Manager is the
> instance of the OSM Tasking Manager that exists for HOT tasks (of
> which this would not be one).
>
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