[Talk-us] name expansion bot (Re: Imports information on the wiki)

Val Kartchner val42k at gmail.com
Mon Jan 16 23:34:56 GMT 2012


On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 18:47 +0100, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> Perhaps checking if either the name= tag or the direction_suffix tag
> has ever been edited by a human would be a good measure.  The ways
> which have been edited might need to be manually reviewed if they
> contain an unexpanded N, E, W or S.

In my area I know of two separate streets named "E Avenue" and an "E
Street".  The first bot going through got two of these, but I contacted
the owner before it got to the third.  If another bot comes through and
"corrects" these, it will probably do the same (wrong) thing.

- Val -




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