On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Mike N <[email protected]> wrote: > It's supposed to be useful when the zip code differs from one side of > the road to the other. It gets crazy when used on winding roads. >
Zip codes are crazy and fluid, that's a whole different ball of wax. The geometry tags in tiger are problematic. Do we want geometry on objects that are themselves embedded in a database of geometry? How would that ever stay in sync? I personally find tiger:county to be useful when landing somewhere > random from a note or link and want to do more research against current > TIGER data for that county. There are probably other tools for that, but I > haven't had to track them down yet. > I find it useful for the same thing, but only because of a lack of a really good "*where am I*" button in the editors, which would list all political and cultural divisions, e.g.: (e.g. you're near neighborhood *Gourmet Ghetto*, in *Berkeley*, in *Alameda County*, in *California*, in *USA*, in *North America*, under NATO, part of NAFTA, member of the *United Nations*, on *Planet Earth*).
_______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
