<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default">TL;DR <br>The U.S. Census Bureau releases of TIGER removed the names from driveways in or before 2010 and removed the driveways in or before 2016.<br>For background on fixing TIGER see <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TIGER_fixup">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TIGER_fixup</a><br><br><br><br>Reviewing the TIGER public downloads for 2008, 2010 and 2016 we can see how that dataset has changed over time in this area.<br><br>OSM imported the TIGER 2005 public download. When you see OSM data that has <b style="font-size:small">tiger:</b> attributes, it is most likely from that import.<br><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TIGER">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TIGER</a><br><br>What follows is a visual review of the issue Charlotte investigated for Campbell County VA (FIPS 51031)<br>The data was accessed from<br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2060/EDGES/tl_2016_51031_edges.zip">https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2060/EDGES/tl_2016_51031_edges.zip</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2010/EDGES/tl_2010_51031_edges.zip">https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2010/EDGES/tl_2010_51031_edges.zip</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2008/51_VIRGINIA/51031_Campbell_County/tl_2008_51031_edges.zip">https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2008/51_VIRGINIA/51031_Campbell_County/tl_2008_51031_edges.zip</a><br><br>A sample area was chosen having the named driveway issue in the TIGER 2008 dataset.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br>First looking at the 2008 version to see what that had for name of driveways. (Using the field "FULLNAME" for the labels)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Small lines that serve single residences (driveways) have the name of the adjacent road. <b>driveways are named</b><br><img src="cid:ii_15b95c15a7c715b6" alt="Inline image 1" width="188" height="139" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Next looking at the 2010 version to see what that had for name of driveways. (Using the field "FULLNAME" for the labels)<br></div><div style="font-size:small">Small lines that serve single residences (driveways) exist but the "FULLNAME" field is empty. <b>driveways exists but are no longer named</b><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><img src="cid:ii_15b95c311ee9d1fb" alt="Inline image 2" width="188" height="139" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br></div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div>Next looking at the 2016 version to see what that had for name of driveways. (Using the field "FULLNAME" for the labels)<br></div><div>Small lines that serve single residences (driveways) no longer exist. <b>unnamed driveways no longer exist</b><br></div><div><b><img src="cid:ii_15b95c6e581f0f26" alt="Inline image 3" width="188" height="140" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br></b></div><br>and an aerial photograph to show that the small lines indeed serve single residences</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><img src="cid:ii_15b95c94fed26739" alt="Inline image 4" width="188" height="140" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br><br>C.<br><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 4:18 AM, Paul Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:baloo@ursamundi.org" target="_blank">baloo@ursamundi.org</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"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Charlotte Wolter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:techlady@techlady.com" target="_blank">techlady@techlady.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> After my inquiries about the rash of named driveways in Campbell County, Virginia--these are driveways that end of with the name of the street they intersect--I finally got a reply from the county GIs director (pasted in below). He says inequivocally that it is a TIGER issue, not a local one. Probably no surprise. I know opinions vary on TIGER.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>That's not a giant surprise. And it's not so much that opinions on TIGER vary so much as the quality of TIGER itself is highly variable. I've seen places where TIGER was amazing and there wasn't much to do other than add speed limits and turn lanes. But Portland, Oregon comes to mind as an area where it was pretty obvious that they digitized someone's hand-drawn map, which was drawn on a napkin with a fine-tip ballpoint pen in the rain, and was like trying to get a cat to cooperate with being rubbed backwards to sanitize.</div><span class=""><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
He also add a couple of data souces, his own county and the state of Virginia, that could be useful.<br>
I sent this to TIGER and asked that they update us on any fixes for this.<br></blockquote><div> </div></span></div>Given the inconsistency of TIGER data, I would not be surprised if no automated effort will be ever attempted to deal with that dataset ever again. That said, there are tilesets out there that show TIGER data that thas a newer name or geometry than what OSM has, though this itself has it's pitfalls as I've noticed a tendency for such datasets to false-positive on a name because OklaDOT renamed something and whatever Census-taker mapped it in TIGER kept the old name.</div></div>
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