On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Paul Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dave wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 11:00 -0400, John Callahan wrote: > > > > > > To answer your question...Yes, our new road dataset is a significant > > > improvement over current TIGER data (which I obtained from > > > http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2007/tgrshp2007.html) > > > > Could you qualify that a bit for us? How much better? In what ways? > > i confess i haven't looked closely at the tiger import, but i'd > also be curious about uniformity of the meta-data -- e.g., does > the new data include all the address information that tiger provides? > all the route name/number information? placename/landmark info? > there's some value in having all that be uniform across states.
I don't know that I'd be overly concerned about this, as we have other data that didn't come from TIGER, like the MassGIS import. Christopher Schmidt would be a good person to contact about importing a whole state from shapefiles, btw, since he did the MassGIS import. -Ted _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-us
