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fix: fixnames.py has been replaced by osmhighways.py, but does almost…
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rsavoye committed Sep 28, 2024
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Most of the fields in the dataset aren't needed for OSM, only the
reference number if it has one, and the name. Most of these highways
are already in OSM, but it's a bit of a mess, and mostly
unvalidated. Most of the problems are related to the TIGER import
invalidated. Most of the problems are related to the TIGER import
in 2007. So the goal of these utilities is to add in the [TIGER
fixup](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TIGER_fixup) work by
updating or adding the name and a reference number. These utilities
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inside the zip. Each one covers a 7.5 quad square on a topo map. These
have to be merged together into a single file to be practical.

## fixnames.py
## osmhighways.py

On the OSM wiki, there is a list of [incorrect
tagging](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging#National_Forest_Road_System)
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number, not a name. This is primarily a problem with existing OSM
data. These would all have to get manually fixed when validating in
JOSM, so this program automates the process so you only have to
validate, and not edit the feature. After conflation, process the
output file with this utility to produce an improved version.
validate, and not edit the feature. This also extracts only highway
linestrings, so is used to create the OSM dataset for
conflation. Since the other external datasets also correctly use
name, ref, and ref:usfs, this simplifys conflation. Otherwise the
algorithm would get very complicated and hard to maintain.

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