[OSM-talk] Changing capitalization (Lima)

Alex Barth alex at mapbox.com
Fri Jun 1 19:58:58 BST 2012


Wow, thanks so much - I'm running out of time right now and can't look at the file. How could I prep such a file myself?

On May 31, 2012, at 3:13 PM, Worst Fixer wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> 2012/5/31 Alex Barth <alex at mapbox.com>:
>> We're currently working with Ruben (user Rub21) on fixing street name capitalization in Lima - a lot of the street names are ALL CAPS where they should be properly capitalized. We're doing this work manually right now and are well under way. It's quite time intensive though - any examples of where such a cleanup process has been automated on OSM before?
> 
> I appreciate your fight with bad tags and bad imports.
> 
> I prepared a file with edits for highways in Lima area.
> 
> http://worstfixer.000a.biz/y2-lima-hw/edits-to-upload.osm.gz
> 
> Overview:
> http://worstfixer.000a.biz/y2-lima-hw/overview-short.html
> http://worstfixer.000a.biz/y2-lima-hw/overview-full.html
> 
> Ich also deleted source= if it is the only tag on nodes, and removed
> single addr:street instance when it was equal to name tag.
> 
> If you notice some big flaw in my case change algoritm, mail me
> privately. Ich will re-make file for you.
> 
> Please review it and upload. If you want to upload it without complete
> review, please follow Mechanical Edits Policy:
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edit_Policy
> 
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