[Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions

andrzej zaborowski balrogg at gmail.com
Sun Apr 11 17:55:18 BST 2010


On 9 April 2010 15:30, Matthias Julius <lists at julius-net.net> wrote:
> Val Kartchner <val42k at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 3) Prefix, body, suffix is available from the TIGER data, but what about
>> streets that have already been added (or corrected) by users?  As we've
>> seen, a bot won't always be able to correctly make these separations (as
>> in the example of "Southbay" vs. "South Bay" given previously)  How do
>> we make it so that it meets the goals I've given?
>
> I would say:
> - assemble the name out of the tiger:name_* tags
> - if that matches the name tag re-assemble the name while expanding
> tiger:name_direction_prefix and tiger:name_direction_prefix and
> replace the name tag.

Ok, added the check in r20882 although I'd say the script is useful
for data from sources other than TIGER too.

I don't think that only the direction_prefix/suffix should be
expanded, basically all name should be the way it is pronounced to
avoid ambiguity.

The "East Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior Boulevard" is an example
that I think shows that the direction parts of the name are the least
of the problems.  On the signage the name appears as E DR MLKjr BLVD
or similar.

Cheers




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