On Jun 27, 2009, at 10:16 AM, Stellan Lagerstrom wrote: > Greg Stark wrote: >> Also, are ways actually entirely in one county or another? It seems >> to >> me they would often span borders. >> >> > That is how they are reported to the census bureau. Every county > reports > on the parts of roads that lie within its borders. > They rarely match up exactly enough at the boundary for the import > to be > able to join them up.
Where the TIGER data is in good shape, they do line up exactly. I can point you to some examples. Can you point me to some examples where they don't line up? -- Russ Nelson - http://community.cloudmade.com/blog - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson r...@cloudmade.com - Twitter: Russ_OSM - http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
