[Talk-ht] Evolving street names?

David Fawcett david.fawcett at gmail.com
Fri Jan 29 19:54:15 GMT 2010


In trying to clean up the last of the PaP streets, I am finding
examples of Ruelle X from the DMA topo, but in OSM, it is now Rue X.
There is no source listed for the data, so I can't verify which is
correct.  Do 'little ruelle' grow up to be 'big rue' over 15 years or
so?

I could change it to match the DMA Topo, but that is pretty old.

David.

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Brad Neuhauser
<brad.neuhauser at gmail.com> wrote:
> That brings up a question I've had during this project but never seen
> an answer to:  how do you include accented characters?  Thanks, Brad
>
>
>>
>> Port-au-Prince street names. Since early this week several of us have been
>> checking street names against the DMA maps, and have now reduced the
>> outstanding unresolved names to just over 100. The task is becoming
>> increasingly involved and, I think, now requires a good OSM background. Once
>> again cross-checking that names have not accidentally been entered in
>> incorrect locations is needed (a common problem because 6 and 8 were easily
>> confused on the map scans). Many names could be improved by restoring
>> missing accents.
>>
>> Level 3 administrative boundaries (pcode level3) have been imported for the
>> main areas affected by the 'quake (all of Sud-Est and most of Ouest
>> departments). I have refrained from adding the others for now because
>> processing data imported from shape files is still manually intensive and
>> very prone to break things which already work. I do not know if pcode:3 tags
>> have been set for minor places (hamlets, villages and localities). However,
>> if this would be regarded as useful the data can be loaded quite quickly:
>> although EdLoach won't thank me for it.
>>
>> Cemeteries, graveyards etc. I miss any idea on the status of mapping
>> cemeteries, and note that the placename Titanyen where many news media have
>> reported the location of mass graves is missing from OSM.
>>
>> Just my two penn'orth,
>>
>> Jerry
>> SK53 on OSM
>>
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