[Talk-us] note to abbreviation bot authors

Richard Welty rwelty at averillpark.net
Mon May 16 16:56:12 BST 2011


On 5/16/11 11:10 AM, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> On 16 May 2011 06:09, Richard Welty<rwelty at averillpark.net>  wrote:
>> i recently spent some quality time doing tiger review in a community
>> that has a rather straightforward naming system for its avenues.
>> it starts with A Avenue to the south and steps through the alphabet
>> as the avenues appear to the north.
>>
>> a de-abbreviation bot had been run on the area.
>>
>> it should most assuredly _not_ have "corrected" E Ave to East Avenue,
>> nor should it have "corrected" N Ave to North Avenue.
>>
>> please be careful with these things, folks.
> Yes, the bot tried to use direction prefix tag to distinguish between
> E as a letter and E for East and it turned out to be wrong in the 2006
> data way too often.
i'm not sure i'm following this. there are no prefix tags that i can see
on the ways in question:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/16034490

there is a tiger:basename tag of "N", and if the name_type and alleged
directional prefix are removed, there is no residual name for the 
avenue. this
seems like a gross oversight in bot design.

richard




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