[Talk-us] fixing street names by hand

[Ian Dees]

>From what we've previously discussed we're ONLY changing unedited TIGER
ways. If a change has been made to them then we won't change them. At least
that's what Serge has talked about previously. Hopefully he'll correct me
if I'm wrong.


On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Charlie Smothers
<modus.ponens at yahoo.com>wrote:

> I've been watching all the discussion about fixing street names, direction
> prefixes, robots, etc. and want to make sure my efforts don't get wasted.
>
> I have made lots of changes around Sacramento CA to fix streets and alleys
> that have botched names. N Street was mis-named North Street. And the alley
> between N Street and O Street was mis-named North Saint O Street Alley.  As
> I have made changes I focused on the name= tag. And if I happen to notice
> Tiger tags that are wrong, I either delete them (in the case of N street,
> removing the tiger:name_direction_prefix=  and fixing the tiger:base_name=
> ), or I fix them. But often I leave the Tiger tags alone.  If the
> tiger:name=J St K St then I don't fix the St to Street. I only fix the
> name= to expand the St to Street
>
> What I'm concerned about is whether my efforts are going to become wiped
> out if some one (or someone's robot) clobbers my hand edited fixes. If I
> have eyes-on-the-scene knowledge of what I'm fixing, what should I be
> doing? Should I remove the tiger tags? Should I include a source= tag? Will
> this help?
>
> I know that there is no guaranteed way to prevent future changes. I just
> want to know a best practice to leave a clue for well written robots,
> map-checkers, and intelligent contributors.
> --
> Charles
>
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