[Talk-us] Road abbreviations

[Serge Wroclawski]

Toby,

Thanks for the pointer. I think you're right that in this case
especially, there's no reason to admonish anyone, but perhaps we can
examine the data and see if there's a safe way to expand it, like we
did the TIGER data.

That may also explain some large portion of the contractions I found.
Maybe it's worth trying to map them....

I'll have to spend some time with tilemill to get a visualization.

- Serge


On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Toby Murray <toby.murray at gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe this was an import done in 2009. Here is an example changeset that
> is obviously an address import in the area:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/3407483
>
> The import is documented on the import catalog page[1] on the wiki and
> mentioned on the California imports page[2] as well. It isn't a recent rogue
> import so please don't send angry messages. This was done before the first
> TIGER name expansion bot was run (in 2010) so I'm not really sure if the "no
> abbreviations" consensus had been solidified at that point.
>
> But yeah, it should be fixed and it will take a bot to do so.
>
> Toby
>
> [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue
> [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/California/Import
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:22 AM, Hans De Kryger
>> <hans.dekryger13 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I just came across a import of address data in San Diego. I checked the
>>> data and all of it is using road abbreviations. Is that normal?
>>
>>
>> Not normal nor acceptable. I would suggest sending a message to the
>> importer asking them to stop and fix what they imported.
>>
>> As Serge suggested, send a link an area in San Diego with the bad
>> formating.
>>
>> Clifford
>>
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