Code currently tags the relevant nodes with their corresponding TIGER zero-cell IDs.<br><br>-B<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dave Hansen</b> <<a href="mailto:dave@sr71.net">
dave@sr71.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:14 -0500, Alex Mauer wrote:<br>> Dave Hansen wrote:
<br>> > Also, are there any tags we should be adding to the nodes so that we can<br>> > reconcile them against TIGER data in the future? I was thinking that it<br>> > might be nice for diff'ing purposes in the future to be able to keep
<br>> > track of which nodes in OSM came from which points in the TIGER data.<br>> > That way, if we want to import the 2007 data down the line, we can just<br>> > figure out which nodes we're missing from OSM.
<br>><br>> I'd be quite leary of trying to import TIGER data more than once. I<br>> wouldn't like to see OSM mapper corrections to TIGER-derived data get<br>> lost because of that.<br><br>I think the current implementation does need to make sure to tag OSM
<br>nodes with enough metadata to figure out what TIGER points the<br>correspond to. It doesn't do that at all right now, only for ways.<br><br>I think we'll only be able to do a wholesale import of TIGER data once.
<br>After the first import, we'll probably need to write a TIGER diff<br>utility to figure out what got added from 2006->2007 and then only<br>upload _that_. But, I think we can do that a year from now. :)<br><br>
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