[Talk-us] Scrubbing route relations

Richard Welty rwelty at averillpark.net
Fri Oct 19 02:54:14 BST 2012


it's not a traditional method of doing that, but i do think it could work.

it does also seem to address Paul Johnson's concern about distinguishing 
some cases.

richard

On 10/18/12 9:36 PM, Michal Migurski wrote:
> Hi Richard, thanks!
>
> The "CR" vs. County name thing is new to me. Another mapper suggested that I replace them with something like this so it's not necessary to know all the county names in order to correctly interpret something as a county route:
>
> 	network=US:NY:CR:Rensselaer
>
> Kosher?
>
> -mike.
>
> On Oct 18, 2012, at 5:16 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
>
>> the scrubbing looks mostly ok, BUT...
>>
>> i am one of the folks who started out using US:<state>:CR for county route networks, which i now believe was
>> a mistake. we really should be using county names, not CR in the network tag, e.g.
>>
>> network=US:NY:Rensselaer
>>
>> otherwise we can't really tell which county the route is in, and can't distinguish CR 1 in Columbia County from CR 1 in
>> Rensselaer County.
>>
>> richard
>>
>> On 10/18/12 7:26 PM, Michal Migurski wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> We're getting ready to do a major data update to the Stamen Terrain layer and I've been working on scrubbing the route relations data from OSM. I've linked to a before and after CSV, processed via Google Refine to normalize networks, refs and modifiers.
>>>
>>> I'm curious to get some feedback on it:
>>> 	http://mike.teczno.com/img/osm-scrubbed-routes-2012-09.zip
>>>
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