Paul Johnson wrote: >Dave Hansen wrote: > >>If we can come up with a scheme for getting the addressing imported in a >>sane fashion and the consensus is that people want it done that way, >>it'll get imported. There are still quite a few squeaky wheels that >>like to grumble about TIGER, but I haven't heard a single person say >>that it did more harm than good. > >I firmly believe this. TIGER contains so many errors in Oregon, >Washington and Idaho that it would likely be easier to start fresh than >fix. > >1) TIGER data is so out of date for urban parts of Cascadia as to be >rendered entirely useless. > >2) The TIGER import violates one of the most basic principals of OSM: >"Abbreviations: DO NOT DO IT." > >3) Gotta love how TIGER randomly decides some routes aren't freeways >when they actually are (and have been for decades). Washington State >has literally thousands of miles of expressway and freeway TIGER got >wrong. > >The TIGER import should never have been done. I wonder how easy it >would be to undo this until an actually suitable data source can be >found, since the Fed is doing it on wet bar napkins with "cartographers" >who wear hockey helmets and ride the short bus to work. Might as well >photograph a turd and call it aerial photography of central Idaho for >the accuracy of TIGER...heck, that photo might actually agree with the >TIGER data better!
Your mileage may vary. -- Randy _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
