There are probably dozens of street names in Washington, DC which are incorrectly named in OSM. Many of these are due to faulty data from the Census Bureau. I have been editing some of these mistakes.
Examples:
- Olive Avenue NW fixed to Olive Street NW
- Dumbarton Avenue NW fixed to Dumbarton Street NW
- Small section of Ohio Drive SW fixed to 23rd Street SW (north of Independence Avenue SW)
A much bigger effort is needed. I will continue to work on some of these issue.
Discussion
په 11 March 2014 په 23:23 باندې د aseerel4c26 تبصره
Welcome to OSM, David!
په 12 March 2014 په 15:16 باندې د lxbarth تبصره
David - how do you see this effort structured? Would rendering a map from current OCTO data and then trace from it be a good idea? Should we dump all street names of DC and compare them to a dump of street names in OCTO data? Is just using the TIGER 2012 layer a good approach?
په 12 March 2014 په 15:54 باندې د DavidYJackson تبصره
Your idea of to “dump all street names of DC and compare them to a dump of street names in OCTO data” makes sense. It will be easier review the data outside of OSM.
DDOT (DC DOT) has better data then Tiger 2012.
په 29 March 2014 په 19:28 باندې د OpenBrian تبصره
David, Let me know how i can help. Brian