[Talk-us-massachusetts] A simple check for addresses before the import

[John Goodman]

I'm not sure that's really the correct policy though.

Consider Collette Road in Wakefield. The street sign says "Colette", but 
MassGIS and the town's own property assessment data have it as 
"Collette"; and if you enter an address with "Colette" into the USPS zip 
code locator page, it standardizes the address to "Collette". I'm 
guessing the residents know it as "Collette", get their mail using 
"Collette", and anyone searching for the road in OSM would also key in 
"Collette". So would we really want to have incorrect data just because 
some signmaker made a typo? (Why the town leaves up a bad road sign is a 
good question...).

John Goodman


On 2018.08.07 10:52, Jason Remillard wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> If there is confusion about the name, I don't think we need to wade into 
> it. OSM policy is to always match the street sign, since that is what 
> you see when you are trying to navigate and it is easily verifiable.
> 
> Jason
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 10:39 AM, Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com 
> <mailto:gdt at lexort.com>> wrote:
> 
>     If few enough, sure, but I think we're talking 10K, so maybe a
>     tasking manager or other bug service?
> 
>     I just talked to a friend who lives on a street with complicated
>     naming. The street sign says one thing, and the tax bill says
>     something else, and they really are not sure what the name actually
>     is. I suppose one has to go find the minutes of the board of
>     selectmen who as I understand it are the ones who actually assign names.
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