[Talk-ca] Proposed mechanical edits: GeoBase/CanVec Service Surface and GeoBase/CanVec name spaces

[Harald Kliems]

Hi Paul,
did you ever get around to doing this? I was recently adding a bunch
of street names based on Geobase along the St. Lawrence between
Montreal and Quebec City and I noticed that there are still lots of
streets (and house number interpolations) with the double blanks. And
can somebody please tell me how to do a search and replace in JOSM to
deal with this semi-manually?
Best,
 Harald.

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:
> Since no one has objected (or commented) I'll go ahead with this if I can
> get it in before the rebuild starts.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Paul Norman [mailto:penorman at mac.com]
>> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 12:04 AM
>> To: talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
>> Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Proposed mechanical edits: GeoBase/CanVec Service
>> Surface and GeoBase/CanVec name spaces
>>
>> Not listed in this message was the area this would be over. This would
>> only be over the lower mainland unless requested for another area.
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Paul Norman [mailto:penorman at mac.com]
>> > Subject: [Talk-ca] Proposed mechanical edits: GeoBase/CanVec Service
>> > Surface and GeoBase/CanVec name spaces
>> >
>> > The GeoBase and CanVec imports in the lower mainland suffered from two
>> > tagging errors I propose fixing with two one-time mechanical edits.
>> >
>> > 1. surface=unpaved service ways
>> >
>> > GeoBase and CanVec highway=service ways are mis-tagged with
>> > surface=unpaved regardless of if they are paved or not. I propose
>> > removing this tag as it is misleading. To avoid removal of this tag
>> > where a mapper has reviewed it, I will only do the obvious cases
>> > automatically and review the others.
>> >
>> > The obvious case is ways where none of the tagging has changed since
>> > the import with the possible exception of geobase:uuid which may have
>> > been combined with the value from another way in a merge.
>> >
>> > These will be identified by the tags attribution=GeoBaseR
>> > geobase:acquisitionTechnique=Orthophoto
>> > geobase:datasetName=NRN:British Columbia geobase:uuid=*
>> > source=Geobase_Import_2009 surface=unpaved highway=service
>> >
>> > 2. Double-spaced names
>> >
>> > GeoBase and CanVec sometimes have names with two spaces in them. For
>> > example, "West  70th Street". I propose fixing these. Unfortunately
>> > this is less automated and will require searching through the road
>> > network with JOSM for name:"  ".
>> >
>> > The edit will be from my imports/mechanical edit account and
>> > appropriately documented.
>> >
>> > As these edits will require touching a large number of roads I also
>> > propose cleaning up unnecessary meta-information from the import that
>> > is duplicated by other tags. For example,
>> > geobase:datasetName=NRN:British Columbia can be inferred from
>> > source=Geobase_Import_2009, being located in BC, and matching
>> highway=*.
>> >
>> > It is not worth creating a new version of objects solely to remove
>> > these tags, but since fixing the tagging requires creating a new
>> > object anyways it is worth doing it in this case.
>> >
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