[Talk-us] Talk-us Digest, Vol 51, Issue 19

[Dion Dock]

You're assuming the street signs make sense.  Do you preserve signs with mistakes or omissions?

In Wilsonville, OR, there are some signs for "St Moritz Loop" and "St. Moritz Loop".  Yes, with and without the period, and both expand to "Saint".  There are also plenty of signs that leave out the "Southwest" entirely, although it really is the correct designation for the street.  There's even "Southwest Villebois Drive South".

-Dion

> From: Mike N <niceman at att.net>
> 
> On 2/17/2012 3:02 AM, Alan Mintz wrote:
>> if the name has been edited by a human, it should not be updated by a
>> bot, or even another human unless they are willing to prove their edit.
>> I've edited thousands of names based on photo surveys and official
>> record research and wouldn't want that high-quality data corrupted.
> 
> For myself, I don't know how to determine what the "correct name" would 
> be ... if it doesn't match the street sign, I'd be inclined to change it 
> to agree with the sign, unless there's a 'note' tag to other mappers. 
> Similarly, an 'anti-abbreviation-bot' tag would prevent bots from 
> undoing your research.