On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Clifford Snow <[email protected]>wrote:
> I just found out that I can overlay the latest TIGER data (2011) on JOSM > and Potlatch. Apparently the feature has been there for a while, but I just > ran into it and wanted to make sure everyone else was aware. It is much > better than running TIGER data through org2osm and overlaying it in JOSM. > With this feature, you get can get the roads and names on top of a Bing > image. Makes it easy to add new roads into OSM. You do have to expand the > names, for example E Elm St. into East Elm Street. And when two roads > connect, there is not clear dividing line between the roads, but usually > you can tell. The feature is shown on the wiki at: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TIGER_2011 > > So, whoever added this feature, thank you very much. This is a feature I set up for the community on the OSM US machine. There are several other tile layers available [0] and I would be more than happy to entertain any other ideas or implementations if you have them. [0] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/Servers/Imagery
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