Charlotte,
We have updated our files based on your request. Here is the
response from our updating branch:
"This request has been completed, and there are no more named S1740
features (driveways) in Campbell, VA. Those particular features
either had the feature name removed, or the feature was deleted
from the database altogether."
This update will be reflected in our next release of the TIGER/Line
shapefiles at the end of summer.
Sincerely,
Anne
Anne O'Connor
Geographic Customer Service Branch
Geography Division
U.S. Census Bureau
4600 Silver Hill Road - Mail Stop 7400
Washington, D.C. 20233-7400
(301) 763-1128
Subscribe to updates about the TIGER/Line Shapefiles and other
geographic products on our website: http://www.census.gov/geo/
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From: Charlotte Wolter <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2017 2:51 PM
To: GEO Tiger (CENSUS/GEO)
Subject: Re: Why do driveways end up with street names??
Anne,
After some communication with Campbell County officials
about the named driveways issue, I received a reply from Dale
Woods, their GIS director (see below), who says that the named
driveways are not in their local data. I have passed this along to
the OpenStreetMap US email list.
I know that you will look into this, I would appreciate an
update, even if it takes a long time, because it's a huge chore to
change all those driveways manually. Maybe, if we know the details
of the issue, our data guys can come up with some way to change
the driveways en masse. OpenStreetMap also does imports of TIGER
data about every other year to correct known issues.
Thanks for your help.
Best wishes,
Charlotte Wolter
From your description, it sounds like you are looking at
Census, TIGER
data. Census adds these names to driveways, using the same name as the
road they come off of. This is something Census does for their use.
Campbell County does NOT duplicate road names.
Virginia has a statewide road database in which localities provide data
updates. Campbell County participates in this process. Statewide
street data can be viewed and/or downloaded from:
<http://vgin.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=741d0fb937ee420680eb500250acc4ef>http://vgin.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=741d0fb937ee420680eb500250acc4ef
Additionally, County data can be viewed from our County Website at:
<http://gis.worldviewsolutions.com/campbell/account/logon>http://gis.worldviewsolutions.com/campbell/account/logon
Dale Woods
GIS Program Manager
Campbell County, VA
([email protected])
At 08:42 AM 4/4/2017, you wrote:
Charlotte,
Thank you for your inquiry.
We gather all of our road data from local sources, we then test
that data, and, if it passes, we add it to our TIGER database. We
also make sure that the data works well with the rest of our
data. That said, we sometimes have residual issues with the data.
In this case, the problems with named driveways came from the
partner files we received during the MAF/TIGER Accuracy
Improvement Project (MTAIP) in the mid-2000s. MTAIP was used to
update TIGER, and a majority of the time we uploaded the
information into our database expecting it to be correct and
accurate from the source, but in some cases it was not. Staffing,
timing, and software restrictions during those years also provided
some issues, and we sometimes weren't able to run a 100% QC on a
file, or target the problems as easily as we can now.
Looking at the area in question, we ran this county through MTAIP
in September 2005, and those named driveways were introduced
then. There was actually a note made "Many driveways added, some
with names" at the time.
You noted an issue in Campbell County, VA, if you know of any
other areas where this kind of problem is wide-spread, please let
us know and we'll take a look. This may take some time, but we do
make every effort to continue to improve the quality of our files.
Sincerely,
Anne
Anne O'Connor
Geographic Customer Service Branch
Geography Division
U.S. Census Bureau
4600 Silver Hill Road - Mail Stop 7400
Washington, D.C. 20233-7400
(301) 763-1128
Subscribe to updates about the TIGER/Line Shapefiles and other
geographic products on our website:
<http://www.census.gov/geo/>http://www.census.gov/geo/
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From: Charlotte Wolter <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 3, 2017 20:37
To: GEO TIGERweb (CENSUS/GEO)
Subject: Why do driveways end up with street names??
Hello, TIGER staff,
I am a member of OpenStreetMap abd mpa mostly in the United
States. There is an issue with TIGER data that continually creates
problems, particularly in rural areas,
The issue is that, many times, driveways, particularly long
ones in rural areas, end up with the names of the street they
intersect. I ran across a particularly aggravating example of this
problem in Rustberg, Virginia. There, every almost driveway in town
has been given the name of the street it intersects. In addition,
there are dozens of false driveways with names. The "false" driveways
consist of a node on the street and a second node a few feet away.
Occasionally they correspond to an actual driveway to a house or
business, but much of the time they correspond to nothing (except,
perhaps, the GPS node of the house).
I have worked for the census, and I know how you gather
address data. I, too, have recorded GPS nodes for each building in my
neighborhood. However, this seems to be an issue with how the data is
processed.
Are you working on something to correct this ongoing problem
with driveway names?
Charlotte Wolter
Charlotte Wolter
927 18th Street Suite A
Santa Monica, California
90403
+1-310-597-4040
[email protected]
Skype: thetechlady
Charlotte Wolter
927 18th Street Suite A
Santa Monica, California
90403
+1-310-597-4040
[email protected]
Skype: thetechlady
