[Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions

[Mike Thompson]

Since I raised the issue at some point in this thread of whether a bot
should be used for fixing abbreviations I will respond.  What Dale is
proposing makes a lot of sense.

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Dale Puch <dale.puch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps we should take a look at what a bot would match.
>
> Run a bot that finds and counts the various matches and outputs a report
> only.  pre, mid and suffix counts the abbreviations. and what the bot would
> expand each abbreviation to.
> Abbreviations in the middle should be located, but probably not changed by
> the bot.  The pre and suffix ones should be pretty safe.
> Then start to decide which would be safe to run based on the results.  If
> this can be done by state or perhaps even county all the better to minimize
> issues with local standards.
> Anything that might be questionable we would want to manually look at the
> current names and results.  Having a link to a potlatch view or josm
> shortcut would be all the better.
>
> Let the bot run on the safer choices, the rest we would have a list to
> manually check and edit if needed.  Similar to what was done with motorway
> links.
> Yes there will be mistakes, but stuff like having two streets with 'saint
> louis street' and 'st louis street' names is only going to be fixable by
> locals IMO  Then again how much different is that from two streets with the
> same name in adjacent towns?  Unless the city and zip are the same, what
> will it really matter?
>
> Dale
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> all over upstate NY, you will see "Fred Street" in town, and "Fred
>> Street Road" extending
>> out into the county...
>>
>> richard
>>
>> On 4/8/10 4:20 PM, Brad Neuhauser wrote:
>> > For another oddball example, there are some names like "Upper 35th St
>> > Cir" or "McKusick Rd Ct" (which are offshoots of Upper 35th St and
>> > McKusick Rd, respectively) in some Minnesota suburbs.
>> >
>> > Brad
>> >
>> > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Mike Thompson<miketho16 at gmail.com>
>> >  wrote:
>> >
>> >>>
>> >>>> my experience is that directional is a prefix not a suffix
>> >>>>
>> >>> Portland OR is full of prefixes.  Seattle WA is full of suffixes.
>> >>> Certainly TIGER has them because they occur plenty of places in the
>> >>> US.
>> >>>
>> >> In Washington DC
>> >> * S Capitol St SW
>> >> * S Capitol St SE
>> >> * N Capitol St NW
>> >> * N Capitol St NE
>> >> * E Capitol St SE
>> >> * E Capitol St NE
>> >>
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