Yep a great feature! Thanks Ian Only thing better would be a data layer that new stuff could be copied from instead of the image layer to trace.
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Ian Dees <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > -- Dale Puch
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