Wasn't someone working on importing address data from TIGER? I was under the impression that may have depended on tiger:tlid tags on objects already in OSM, but wasn't sure… On Jul 30, 2012 1:50 AM, "Alan" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 16:21 -0500, Toby Murray wrote: > > tiger:tlid - there seems to be support for removing it although I do > > recall someone opposing it strongly in the past as Anthony mentioned. > > In theory it lets you link back to a specific TIGER object. In > > practice it seems minimally useful with way splitting/merging and a > > fairly high degree of certainty that an automated TIGER 2011+ reimport > > where this could actually be used is probably not going to happen > > I think removing it is fine for any changed way, for the reasons > everyone else has mentioned. > > I oppose removing it for ways that are unchanged (which I understand is > not the current proposal for JOSM; I'm just stating for the record). I > still think it is valuable to leave ourselves any options for > synchronization in the future. While an automated TIGER re-import isn't > likely to happen, the tlid could be useful in the mystical grand > conflation tools that people have proposed/discussed/drooled over. > > - Alan > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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