Jumping in at a random point here...
At 2010-08-24 08:48, Anthony wrote:
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Antony Pegg <[email protected]> wrote:
> What would you like to see done (or NOT see done) with TIGER 2010 as
regards
> OSM when it is released?
Nothing on a grand scale. A TIGER import into a pretty much blank map
is a great thing. A TIGER import into the current OSM, isn't going to
work.
+1. However, I suspect there may be completely untouched areas that could
be wiped and re-imported from 2010, or at least areas where only the
interstate or park guys have worked. I do think it's better to let local
mappers do this work. I've often come across new developments that would
qualify, where existing rural TIGER roads have all been dozed and the whole
area redeveloped.
How about a separate database that contains the 2010 data? Add a selector
to the JOSM download dialog to tell it which database to download from. You
could then download the area of interest from both databases into separate
layers and cut/paste connect as needed. This would be better than the
county-level files proposed earlier, which would be far too big to be
useful in my area (southern Cal).
On a smaller scale, I don't know. Pretty much all the TIGER data I've
ever seen is surpassed in quality by local county/state data. So if
you're going to import county by county, why bother with TIGER?
I'd rather be able to easily fix smaller areas that I'm surveying manually
than wait for somewhat to tackle my counties of interest. FWIW, TIGER 2009
was vastly superior to 2006/7 in terms of positioning - very accurate in
most places I looked. If I had a decent solution for using it, it probably
would have saved me a lot of the time I spend manually repositioning from
sat imagery.
--
Alan Mintz <[email protected]>
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