[Talk-us] note to abbreviation bot authors

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 16 May 2011 19:21, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net> wrote:
> 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.

Well I know a user in Oregon who has done more than 1600 names
manually and then I did more than a hundred in Oregon before deciding
it was a task for a bot.  Someone from Maryland has been commenting on
IRC just yesterday about how boring a task it was, too.

Cheers