[Talk-us] Road abbreviations

[Hans De Kryger]

Hi Clifford

Thanks for diving into the data. I'm going to look into the data.
On Jul 30, 2014 4:53 PM, "Clifford Snow" <clifford at snowandsnow.us> wrote:

>
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> So if you have expertise in Tilemill, I'd love the help in setting up
>> some tiles that show probable abbreviations.
>>
>
> Sorry, I've only created tiles from shapefiles, not from OSM data.
>
> I did look at the address data. It does contain lots of variation. EAst,
> WEst, Ro, Rd, suite numbers in addr:street, There are 20K distinct street
> names in the db. Some are variations of the same name, for example 4th Av
> and 4th Avenue.
>
> If anyone wants to look at the data,
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/51dy31ivgkar89m/sandiego.csv
>
> There does appear to be an E Avenue but no W
> (Avenue)|(Road)|(Street)|(etc.)
>
> What would be especially helpful if we had some local mappers involved.
>
> Clifford
>
>
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