<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div>> In my mind we should use OSM as a factory for producing <br>> TIGER-formatted free GIS data for Europe (and Africa and Asia), so <br>> that existing TIGER-based applications can be used here too. But <br>> I'm not sure what the purpose of OSM can be for the U.S., since <br>> you already have TIGER and other free GIS data sources.<br><br>I've already been finessing TIGER in some parts. The quality of TIGER is mixed, overall pretty decent, but in spots like new residential developments it can be off. Btw, for a lot of commercial data providers, their business model is simply fixing up TIGER :)<br><br><span>For export, as long as OSM is
made available in one of the formats supported by OGR, than it can be used by tools built for TIGER. <a target="_blank" href="http://ogr.maptools.org/drv_tiger.html">http://ogr.maptools.org/drv_tiger.html</a></span><br><br>-Mikel<br><br></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>