[Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions

andrzej zaborowski balrogg at gmail.com
Fri Apr 9 14:15:44 BST 2010


On 9 April 2010 15:06, Matthias Julius <lists at julius-net.net> wrote:
> Val Kartchner <val42k at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 12:23 -0400, Richard Welty wrote:
>>> i don't think anyone would argue with this. it's why having a bot
>>> rampage through
>>> "fixing" things is probably a Real Bad Idea unless it's extremely well
>>> thought out
>>> and comprehensively tested beforehand.
>>
>> While I didn't like what the bot was doing (at the time),
>
> What was the bot doing?
>
>> I don't thing "rampage" is the correct word to use.  That implies
>> malice, which wasn't what was attempted.  However, it did have a
>> beneficial side effect: this topic.  ;-)
>
> In the special case of TIGER data there is a tag
> tiger:name_type=Rd|Ct|Dr|...
>
> I would have thought it should be fairly save to reconstruct the name
> from the tiger:name_* tags while expanding tiger:name_type - IF the
> name is still the original one.

Except for a few caveats the bot follows the TIGER documentation and
expands everything listed there (taking into account the suffix/prefix
requirements), it only touches name and name_1, 2 and so on, leaving
alone other tags.  I did a dry run on a piece of Canada and the
ruleset applies pretty well there too, the streets there were from
Geobase.

Cheers




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