OpenStreetMap
I’ve been working on a JOSM script to expand abbreviated street names. There are hundreds (if not thousands) in the Plainfield, IL area.
This is extremely tedious work without so form of automation. So far I have reviewed every name change and it’s been working awesome.
I wrote up instructions at the GitHub link above. Give it a try yourself or let me know if you find an area with a lot of abbreviated names.
讨论
Warin61 于 2017年02月20日 08:17 的评论
Problems?
St at the end of the string is usually Street St can also be Saint … usually first in the string.
I think the first need to expand those things that are abbreviations at the end of the string. To me these are by far more common.
A full stop at the end of the string should simply be removed … that would then make all the abbreviation that ended with a full stop be found without including the full stop variation. Of course the remove of the full stop should only take place if an abbreviation is found.
Capitalization of the first letter also occurs in the abbreviations .. so these too need to be found and expand.
Carnildo 于 2017年02月21日 22:07 的评论
Which expansion of MT HIGHLAND DR would you recommend? Is it “Mount Highland Drive”, or “Montana Highland Drive”? Or just plain “Mt Highland”, as Google seems to think?
cowdog 于 2017年02月22日 03:03 的评论
@Carnildo, I would go with “Mount”. It makes sense, and it matched the Tiger 2015 data.
cowdog 于 2017年02月22日 03:05 的评论
@Warin61, Great suggestion. It always pays to check everything manually, but more sensible defaults don’t hurt. I’ll probably add this to the script whenever I get around to it.
Viajero Perdido 于 2017年05月 3日 20:27 的评论
Hi.
Please do not automate expansion of suffixes like “NW” to “North-west” without first verifying that the municipality actually uses the more verbose version (mine doesn’t, the official names are Blah Blah NW), and secondly, checking the wiki for local practice.
Calgary and Edmonton, for example.
Viajero Perdido 于 2018年01月27日 18:34 的评论
Undoing automated work (for reasons given directly above) is even MORE tedious than clicking a GO button on a script.