[Talk-ht] Evolving street names?

[Margie Roswell]

Where are the DMA maps that facilitate this work?

Margie

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 2:54 PM, David Fawcett <david.fawcett at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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