Ian Dees <[email protected]> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Peter Budny <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>     Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> writes:
>    
>     > But if, as I suspect, your plan was merely to collect everything
>     > tagged ref=<something> and then stuff that into a route relation
>     > called <something>, that's not an added value in my book.
>    
>     In most cases, these ref=* tags don't exist yet.  If we suppose that
>     it's decided to forget the relations and rely on ref=* tags for
>     identifying roads as part of a network, I could just as easily shift the
>     focus to creating the ref=* tags instead.
>
> How do you plan on determining what ref tags should be applied to a OSM way 
> and/or relation? Are you assuming that
> some key exists in the OSM data that will allow you to reference into the 
> TIGER data? Are you doing spatial
> conflation to match TIGER data with OSM data?

See my other replies in this thread.  There's enough metadata in the
TIGER imports that a lot of it can be reasonably automated.
-- 
Peter Budny  \
Georgia Tech  \
CS PhD student \

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