[Talk-us] Imports information on the wiki

Mike N niceman at att.net
Wed Jan 4 12:22:45 GMT 2012


On 1/3/2012 3:17 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
> Those are unfortunate false negatives. We can probably not capture
> each and every one of those. We need to weigh them against the benefit
> of having a consistent naming across the US. I personally tend to
> accepting these false negatives. That said, I would want to discuss
> this more to get a better understanding of the amount of false
> negatives we'd be dealing with.

I also believe that a few false negatives are better than trying to 
continue to manually edit names.   One of the considerations is whether 
to expand road names not based in TIGER - those may have false 
negatives.  I have no idea how many such cases exist.



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