Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-24 Thread SteveC
Dave the positional accuracy of the 'new' TIGER stuff I hear is substantially better across the board. Some suggestions: Build a list of counties which have not had substantial edits to see if they can be dropped for the new stuff? Import all the TIGER 2007 addressing stuff in the Frederik

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-20 Thread Mikel Maron
Anyway, it seems that the new data is substantially better than the old in some places. What I'd like to do is twofold: 1. regenerate .osm files for all the new TIGER data 2. Compare new .osm files to old TIGER data plus stuff edited in OSM Then, decide how if/when it is appropriate to

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-19 Thread Karl Newman
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone looked at importing the TIGER 2007 data yet? I was going to start coding up the conversion utilities to get started. It appears that this shapefile format may have existing OSM converters out there. Anyone

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-19 Thread Dave Hansen
On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 11:10 -0700, Karl Newman wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone looked at importing the TIGER 2007 data yet? I was going to start coding up the conversion utilities to get started. It

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-19 Thread Karl Newman
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 11:10 -0700, Karl Newman wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone looked at importing the TIGER 2007 data yet? I was going to

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-19 Thread Dave Hansen
On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 11:25 -0700, Karl Newman wrote: Ah. Quite a trick... I seem to recall that somebody had wanted to do that earlier, but I think they got discouraged by the difficulty. Well, time may have made me forget what a pain the original import was. We'll see how far I get this time.

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-19 Thread Dave Hansen
On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 14:29 -0400, Russ Nelson wrote: Dave Hansen writes: Then, decide how if/when it is appropriate to write over the old TIGER stuff with new. Or, to merge it somehow. I've updated it in some cases. Perhaps only update if the data is unchecked? Sure, that would be