On 3/24/15 6:01 PM, Jack Burke wrote: > I would politely disagree that TIGER is an authoritative source for two > reasons: > > 1) The extensive TIGER cleanup that is still being done years after the last > import, and well, if that data were removed and sourced externally, the problems with TIGER boundary data and OSM would change in character rather substantially. > 2) While helpful at compiling data, the federal government is not > authoritative for any boundaries within a state (and once established, not > even for the boundaries of the states themselves). as part of the ongoing improvements in TIGER, the Census Bureau is increasingly pulling data from County GIS departments rather than maintaining it themselves. the quality is much better. and since it's digital, the game of telephone metaphor does not apply so much any more.
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