Re: [Talk-us] One of the strangest TIGER screwups I've seen

2011-10-24 Thread Phil! Gold
* Mike N nice...@att.net [2011-10-23 14:24 -0400]: I don't know why it didn't come in as railway=abandoned, but it sounds like a rails-to-trails trail now. In my experience, railway data in TIGER is much less likely to be up to date than road data, presumably because census workers need to

Re: [Talk-us] One of the strangest TIGER screwups I've seen

2011-10-24 Thread Steven Johnson
In my experience, railway data in TIGER is much less likely to be up to date than road data, presumably because census workers need to visit people that live along roads, but railways are just convenient reference points. There are railroad rights-of-way in Maryland that were abandoned in

Re: [Talk-us] One of the strangest TIGER screwups I've seen

2011-10-23 Thread Mike N
On 10/23/2011 2:07 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Alte Eisenbahn is German for old railway, which is a correct description of the way I don't have any reference, but locals do seem to use the German designation as the name: http://www.fuzzyworld3.com/3um/viewtopic.php?f=5t=4485 In the

Re: [Talk-us] One of the strangest TIGER screwups I've seen

2011-10-23 Thread Richard Welty
On 10/23/11 2:07 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/17161384/history Alte Eisenbahn is German for old railway, which is a correct description of the way. why do you think it's a screwup? do you have local knowledge of the situation. richard

Re: [Talk-us] One of the strangest TIGER screwups I've seen

2011-10-23 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 10/23/2011 2:24 PM, Mike N wrote: On 10/23/2011 2:07 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Alte Eisenbahn is German for old railway, which is a correct description of the way I don't have any reference, but locals do seem to use the German designation as the name:

Re: [Talk-us] One of the strangest TIGER screwups I've seen

2011-10-23 Thread Richard Welty
On 10/23/11 2:45 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 10/23/2011 2:34 PM, Richard Welty wrote: On 10/23/11 2:07 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/17161384/history Alte Eisenbahn is German for old railway, which is a correct description of the way. why do you think

Re: [Talk-us] One of the strangest TIGER screwups I've seen

2011-10-23 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 10/23/2011 2:59 PM, Richard Welty wrote: from Mike's comment, the name appears to likely be correct local usage. Mike's link is from Wisconsin; the way is in Connecticut. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] One of the strangest TIGER screwups I've seen

2011-10-23 Thread Richard Welty
On 10/23/11 3:02 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 10/23/2011 2:59 PM, Richard Welty wrote: from Mike's comment, the name appears to likely be correct local usage. Mike's link is from Wisconsin; the way is in Connecticut. ok, fine, but you're still making an assumption that may turn out to be

Re: [Talk-us] One of the strangest TIGER screwups I've seen

2011-10-23 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 10/23/11 3:02 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 10/23/2011 2:59 PM, Richard Welty wrote: from Mike's comment, the name appears to likely be correct local usage. Mike's link is from Wisconsin; the way is in

Re: [Talk-us] One of the strangest TIGER screwups I've seen

2011-10-23 Thread John F. Eldredge
Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 10/23/11 3:02 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 10/23/2011 2:59 PM, Richard Welty wrote: from Mike's comment, the name appears to likely be correct local usage. Mike's link

Re: [Talk-us] One of the strangest TIGER screwups I've seen

2011-10-23 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: Can someone check TIGER 2010 to see what it currently says? I just did. It's TLID 611694054. The name has been removed. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org