[Talk-us] TIGER expansion bot last call

[Toby Murray]

I think I figured out why the bot will touch so many roads even in
areas where the previous name expansion bot has already run.

Turns out, the original TIGER import put two adjacent spaces into some
names. It looks like specifically whenever there was a directional
suffix in the name there ended up being two spaces between the base
name and the suffix. I think there may be some other cases too.

See this road in Colorado for an example:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/way/17076279

There are two spaces between 45 and South which the bot is going to
eliminate. Note that web browsers have a nasty tendency to hide
multiple adjacent spaces, even when viewing unstyled XML. You may have
to "view source" to see it.

The original name expansion bot did not fix these but since this bot
is composing the name from the ground up using the other tiger tags it
is eliminating it. While strictly speaking this is not an "expansion"
of the name, I think this is still an improvement in the data.

Toby


On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Alex Barth <alex at mapbox.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hey Serge -
>>
>> I still think a heads up to the import list as you suggested on the phone call is a good thing. Apologies if I missed that.
>
> It's in my sent box as sent, so I think I did.
>
> - Serge
>
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