[Talk-ht] Evolving street names?

[David Fawcett]

I sent an email to the feature editor asking about the source.

I am suspicious though, because all of the ruelle in this grid square
have apparently matured to rue status...

David.

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 2:09 PM, David Fawcett <david.fawcett at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>> --
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