[Talk-ht] Evolving street names?

[David Fawcett]

They are in the nice slippy map app from telescience:
http://hypercube.telascience.org/haiti/

and the sheet that I am working off of is in non-georeferenced format
at:  http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/world_cities/txu-oclc-51277879-port_au_prince2-1994.jpg
(Perry Castaneda Library)

David.

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Margie Roswell <mroswell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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