On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Nick Hocking [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Well, #2 would be nice but it would be tricky to detect a collision with
an
existing way. Frankly, because the first TIGER import was done, the number
of completely new ways that would be added in a new import would be
ian wrote:
I just e-mailed the Census Bureau, and the friendly woman on the other end
told me that they were planning on releasing TIGER/Line 2008 by the end of
this year. Keep that in mind when we are talking about importing 2007 data.
She said to keep an eye on the TIGER website (
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Paul Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
does the census bureau publish any sort of a diff, or delta dataset?
i'd think that just in terms of raw crunching that having just the
differences from year to year would save a lot of work, both manual
and CPU-cycles.
I
ian wrote:
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Paul Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
does the census bureau publish any sort of a diff, or delta dataset?
i'd think that just in terms of raw crunching that having just the
differences from year to year would save a lot of work, both
I don't see it as corrupting. It's not mangling the mapper's work in any
way. If they don't like the new overlapping road, then just delete the TIGER
one.
Ok - We've hit an impass then.
You can't just hit delete You have to merge all the duplicated data in
order
to make the way/area sane It
There's another consideration ... what if a TIGER import is done somewhat
carefully, but not quite carefully enough? So 90% of the areas are made
better, and 10% are made worse ?
If those 10% are located where someone has poured their heart into making a
carefully constructed map - you
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 15:46 -0700, Alan Brown wrote:
If those 10% are located where someone has poured their heart into
making a carefully constructed map - you could disillusion some of
your most active contributors.
Yup, I completely agree.
But, one of the nice things is that the active
I do not think there is anything to gain from the counties that are listed
to not be improved. My county (orange county fl.) is one that was NOT
improved yet, and in QGIS it looks to be unmodified from the original tiger
import. There are not any new tags in the data that would add anything
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