[Tagging] Rd --> Road

[Toby Murray]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Martijn van Exel <mvexel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/29/2011 10:35 AM, Richard Welty wrote:
>>
>> On 12/29/11 11:30 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just came across an area with some abbreviated road names. JOSM
>>> issued a warning about this, suggesting I expand these 'Something Rd'
>>> names to their full equivalents. Is this indeed common practice? If
>>> so, this could be scripted, couldn't it?
>>>
>>>
>> it could be. however, automated expansion of road names can be risky
>> (rd->road is fairly safe.)
>>
>> but i use the expansion locally as an aid for tracking what roads i've
>> reviewed; i expand them
>> when i remove the tiger:reviewed tags.
>>
>
> I appreciate the potential pitfalls with automatic expansion - in general, I
> would not be in favor. I'll give it a try on my local machine with this
> particular small region I downloaded.

There was a script. It is even in the OSM svn:
http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/utils/import/tiger2osm/expand

It was run on the western US although it does seem to have missed a
few (probably just failed uploads or something)

I wrote a blog post about this :)
http://ksmapper.blogspot.com/2011/05/main-attraction.html

> About this tiger:reviewed -- what specifically needs to be reviewed for this
> tag to be removed? I have personally never removed a tiger:reviewed. Is this
> something that could be a JOSM builtin function or plugin?

>From what I have seen, different people use it for different things. I
have seen some people who seem to do a CTRL-A in JOSM before they
upload and remove all the tiger:reviewed tags. I personally only
remove it if I have traveled down the road with a GPS device running.
Some people change it from "no" to "aerial" after they have aligned it
to imagery.

Toby