[OSM-talk-be] the state of OpenStreetmap in Antwerpen

[Ben Laenen]

On Thursday 18 September 2008, you wrote:
> Forgot about this question:
>
> On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 13:12 +0200, Ben Laenen wrote:
> > Reminds me to ask what was different with the first name in that
> > column except that the one in the second column is all uppercase.
> >
> > Ben
>
> It's about the Josef de Hasquestraat. According to the streetnamelist
> it is spelled with a small letter d.
> I added it to the list because I think that on other - similar -
> places the streetsign would show 'JOSEF de HASQUESTRAAT' then.
> At least on some places they shurely would do. Not shure if there is
> a similar policy in Antwerpen.

I don't think it matters. They've just chosen on that sign to have 
everything in capitals. There was no general policy applied for most 
signs you see today. They have all shapes, colours and sizes and some 
have all capitals, others are just titlecase. They're often still from 
the time before all districts merged with Antwerp. Recently it has 
changed though. New signs are now uniformly made (all caps IIRC).

> 2600 Berchem now shows 100% streetnames done now too.
>
> Other districts where some work was done over the last month:
>
> 2018 (zuid) from 82 to 85% done
> 2020 Kiel from 56 to 59 % done
> 2050 Linkeroever from 18 to 26 % done
> 2060 Noord from 56 to 66 % done
> 2170 Merksem from 16 to 20 % done
> 2610 Wilrijk from 47 to 50 % done
> 2660 Hoboken from 37 to 38 % done

Btw, how did you solve the Frans Jochemsplein issue? Just put it in the 
ignore list? It looks like you'll need more of those in the ignore list 
later. They've just gave a new small square a name here in Berchem 
(Josué Duponplaats), again no roads that can have the name there.

And to make it more fun: they've also given the new underground parking 
near the Nationale Bank on the Leien an official street name "Parking 
Nationale Bank": 
http://notulus.antwerpen.be/rs-bin/RightSite.exe/getcontent/C2007-010157.pdf?DMW_OBJECTID=090f45ab80393fdb&DMW_FORMAT=pdf&fext=.pdf

Perhaps your script shouldn't look at just the roads with a highway 
tag :-)

Ben