[Talk-us] note to abbreviation bot authors

[Richard Welty]

On 5/16/11 1:16 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> On 16 May 2011 17:56, Richard Welty<rwelty at averillpark.net>  wrote:
>> 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
> Ironically this one looks like a manual edit (or at least it doesn't
> have a bot=yes tag on the changeset and it's more localised than bot
> edits tend to be), and it's in Iowa where the automated expansion has
> not been run.
some automated expansion has been run here.

the changeset comment for version 2 is "Expanding street names in Story 
County, IA"
i seriously doubt anyone manually expanded an entire county with 1625 
ways in the
bounding box. likely someone's own bot, someone who was unaware of the 
bot=yes
tag, perhaps.

richard