On Jan 4, 2013, at 1:33 AM, Alex Barth wrote: > On Jan 3, 2013, at 7:06 PM, Michal Migurski <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sounds great, I'm actually in the middle of publishing a followup to the >> green-means-go map after ploughing through the full planet history dump. > > Great Tue 1/8, 5PM Eastern. My handle is lx_barth, I'll be on #osm-dev at the > same time (alexb). Anybody who's interested here in identifying TIGER deserts > is welcome to join. > > I just looked at your new green-means-go map. There is the gap that I'm > seeing between what you're doing and what Ruben, Ian and I'd like to do: > we're particularly interested in places where the TIGER geography is off. I. > e. where roads are not where they should be. > > After a first test here with Virginia [1] we saw that TIGER deserts do not > necessarily equal bad road geography. So we're right now particularly > interested in methods for identifying bad TIGER road geography. > > I'm thinking such a "Bad TIGER Roads Map" could be a valuable community > resource to see where stuff is worst and needs fixing that we could maintain > over time.
Interesting—how would you characterize "bad" roads? One characteristic of crappy TIGER data is road wiggliness, is that what you mean? -mike. ---------------------------------------------------------------- michal migurski- contact info and pgp key: sf/ca http://mike.teczno.com/contact.html _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
