<div dir="ltr">Eric,<div>A big help would be to have an understanding of how ways are displayed on the overlay. I see different shapes and colors. What do they represent? </div><div><br></div><div>I can help with the name expansion. I have a fair number of abbreviations that I've used in Washington State. </div>
<div><br></div><div>BTW is your code at <a href="https://github.com/ericfischer/osm-tiger-update">https://github.com/ericfischer/osm-tiger-update</a>?</div><div><br></div><div>Clifford</div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Eric Fischer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:enf@pobox.com" target="_blank">enf@pobox.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">As was just announced on the MapBox blog (<a href="https://www.mapbox.com/blog/openstreetmap-tiger/" target="_blank">https://www.mapbox.com/blog/openstreetmap-tiger/</a>) there is a new OpenStreetMap tracing layer for 2013 Census Bureau TIGER map data in the US.<div>
<br></div><div>The main reason for it, aside from incorporating this year's TIGER changes, is to provide different features at different zoom levels:<br><div><br></div><div>* At zoom 16 and up, like the TIGER 2012 layer, it shows all the current TIGER roads so that they can be compared with OpenStreetMap and the discrepancies corrected.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>* At zoom 12-15, it shows only the TIGER roads that have been changed since the import in 2006, with the current state of OpenStreetMap masked out, so you see only the places where TIGER has been changed (and presumably corrected) but OpenStreetMap hasn't. This should give an easier overview of what places need attention.</div>
<div><br></div><div>* At zooms below 12, like the Battle Grid, it also shows discrepancies between OSM and TIGER, but simplified because the individual streets are too small to draw in detail. It's a static calculation that will get periodically refreshed, but not instantly, as OpenStreetMap changes.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The tile URL is http://{switch:a,b,c}.<a href="http://tiles.mapbox.com/v3/enf.ho204tap,enf.ho20a3n1,enf.game1617/%7Bzoom%7D/%7Bx%7D/%7By%7D.png" target="_blank">tiles.mapbox.com/v3/enf.ho204tap,enf.ho20a3n1,enf.game1617/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.png</a> but as the comma-separated list in the URL suggests, it is actually a composite of three layers that work together:</div>
<div><div><br></div><div>TIGER streets/changes: <a href="https://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/enf.ho204tap/page.html?secure=1#14/40.3648/-86.8654" target="_blank">https://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/enf.ho204tap/page.html?secure=1#14/40.3648/-86.8654</a><br>
</div><div>OpenStreetMap mask: <a href="https://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/enf.ho20a3n1/page.html?secure=1#14/40.3648/-86.8654" target="_blank">https://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/enf.ho20a3n1/page.html?secure=1#14/40.3648/-86.8654</a></div>
<div>Low zooms: <a href="https://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/enf.game1617/page.html?secure=1#11/40.3648/-86.8654" target="_blank">https://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/enf.game1617/page.html?secure=1#11/40.3648/-86.8654</a></div>
<div><br></div></div><div>In the pull request for iD (<a href="https://github.com/systemed/iD/pull/2010" target="_blank">https://github.com/systemed/iD/pull/2010</a>) Ian Dees pointed out that the abbreviations in street names should expanded and that it would be good to also include house numbers. I'll be updating the vector data with expanded names in the next few days and will add the house numbers as soon as I can. Please let me know if you see anything else that ought to be better.</div>
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</font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Eric</div></font></span></div>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div>Clifford</div><div><br></div><div>OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch</div>
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