Re: [Talk-us] Response from TIGER about "driveways

Thanks, Bill, Very interesting. Certainly there are other such local "strategies" to deal with long driveways. There are other local customs that mappers should know, such as that state roads in some states have SR before the number, not the state abbreviation I've made that mistake

Re: [Talk-us] Response from TIGER about "driveways

Chiming in my +1 to everything recently said here about OSM's TIGER data (and cats and such) in the USA. I'd like to remind everybody that most RAIL data in the USA are largely from that same TIGER import. Since about 2014, USA rail data have improved to a moderate degree, though spottily,

Re: [Talk-us] Response from TIGER about "driveways

On 4/5/2017 3:10 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2006-November/002561.html for details. (I chuckled when I read that message which begins with a complaint about the mailing lists.) I chuckled when I read that the first problems involved developing

Re: [Talk-us] Response from TIGER about "driveways

Hi, On 04/04/17 23:17, Kevin Kenny wrote: > There's a lot that's wrong with the import systemically, and a lot > that's wrong with it locally. Around here, a lot of TIGER ways are > outright hallucinations, and I'm not afraid to delete or edit them. In > private emails, I've joked about all the

Re: [Talk-us] Response from TIGER about "driveways

On 04/04/2017 04:17 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote: > In private emails, I've joked about all the "TIGER [excrement]" in the > database, and referred to the process of making it more closely match > reality as, "cleaning the cat box." I've been known to refer to "TIGER barf" in my changeset comments. It's

Re: [Talk-us] Response from TIGER about "driveways

On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 4:51 PM, Charlotte Wolter wrote: > I wrote to TIGER about the false "driveways" issue that I > discovered, and got a reply from Anne O'Connor of TUGER. Apparently it is a > known issue, but they would like to hear about any others that we may

Re: [Talk-us] Response from TIGER about "driveways

There are jurisdictions where named driveways are required if the house is out of sight of the street. E.g. Cumberland Co. Maine, the newishcountywide E911 dispatch requires street names be unique across county and that houses not within sight of the road have a named PVT WAY that becomes their