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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">From: Charlotte Wolter
<techlady@techlady.com><br>
Subject: Fwd: Re: Why do driveways end up with street names??<br>
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Charlotte,<br><br>
We have updated our files based on your request. Here is the
response from our updating branch:<br><br>
"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."<br><br>
This update will be reflected in our next release of the TIGER/Line
shapefiles at the end of summer.<br><br>
Sincerely,<br>
Anne<br><br>
Anne O'Connor<br>
Geographic Customer Service Branch <br>
Geography Division<br>
U.S. Census Bureau<br>
4600 Silver Hill Road - Mail Stop 7400<br>
Washington, D.C. 20233-7400<br>
(301) 763-1128 <br><br>
Subscribe to updates about the TIGER/Line Shapefiles and other geographic
products on our website:
<a href="http://www.census.gov/geo/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.census.gov/geo/</a><br><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><b>From:</b> Charlotte Wolter
<techlady@techlady.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 18, 2017 2:51 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> GEO Tiger (CENSUS/GEO)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Why do driveways end up with street names??</font>
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Anne,<br><br>
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.<br>
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.<br>
Thanks for your help.<br><br>
Best wishes,<br><br>
Charlotte Wolter<br><br>
From your description, it
sounds like you are looking at Census, TIGER<br>
data. Census adds these names to driveways, using the same name as
the<br>
road they come off of. This is something Census does for their
use.<br>
Campbell County does NOT duplicate road names. <br><br>
Virginia has a statewide road database in which localities provide
data<br>
updates. Campbell County participates in this process.
Statewide<br>
street data can be viewed and/or downloaded from:<br>
<a href="http://vgin.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=741d0fb937ee420680eb500250acc4ef">
http://vgin.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=741d0fb937ee420680eb500250acc4ef<br>
<br>
</a>Additionally, County data can be viewed from our County Website
at:<br>
<a href="http://gis.worldviewsolutions.com/campbell/account/logon">
http://gis.worldviewsolutions.com/campbell/account/logon<br><br>
</a>Dale Woods<br>
GIS Program Manager<br>
Campbell County, VA<br>
(DRWoods@co.campbell.va.us)<br><br>
<br>
At 08:42 AM 4/4/2017, you wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Charlotte,<br><br>
<br>
Thank you for your inquiry.<br><br>
<br>
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. <br><br>
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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. <br><br>
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.<br><br>
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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. <br><br>
Sincerely,<br><br>
Anne<br><br>
<br><br>
Anne O'Connor<br><br>
Geographic Customer Service Branch <br>
Geography Division<br>
U.S. Census Bureau<br>
4600 Silver Hill Road - Mail Stop 7400<br>
Washington, D.C. 20233-7400<br>
(301) 763-1128 <br><br>
Subscribe to updates about the TIGER/Line Shapefiles and other geographic
products on our website:
<a href="http://www.census.gov/geo/">http://www.census.gov/geo/</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><b>From:</b> Charlotte Wolter
<techlady@techlady.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 3, 2017 20:37<br>
<b>To:</b> GEO TIGERweb (CENSUS/GEO)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Why do driveways end up with street names??</font> <br>
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<font size=2>Hello, TIGER staff,<br><br>
I am a member of
OpenStreetMap abd mpa mostly in the United <br>
States. There is an issue with TIGER data that continually creates <br>
problems, particularly in rural areas,<br>
The issue is that, many
times, driveways, particularly long <br>
ones in rural areas, end up with the names of the street they <br>
intersect. I ran across a particularly aggravating example of this <br>
problem in Rustberg, Virginia. There, every almost driveway in town <br>
has been given the name of the street it intersects. In addition, <br>
there are dozens of false driveways with names. The "false"
driveways <br>
consist of a node on the street and a second node a few feet away. <br>
Occasionally they correspond to an actual driveway to a house or <br>
business, but much of the time they correspond to nothing (except, <br>
perhaps, the GPS node of the house).<br>
I have worked for the
census, and I know how you gather <br>
address data. I, too, have recorded GPS nodes for each building in my
<br>
neighborhood. However, this seems to be an issue with how the data is
<br>
processed.<br>
Are you working on
something to correct this ongoing problem <br>
with driveway names?<br><br>
Charlotte Wolter<br><br>
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Charlotte Wolter<br>
927 18th Street Suite A<br>
Santa Monica, California<br>
90403<br>
+1-310-597-4040<br>
techlady@techlady.com<br>
Skype: thetechlady<br>
</blockquote>Charlotte Wolter<br>
927 18th Street Suite A<br>
Santa Monica, California<br>
90403<br>
+1-310-597-4040<br>
techlady@techlady.com<br>
Skype: thetechlady<br>
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Charlotte Wolter<br>
927 18th Street Suite A<br>
Santa Monica, California<br>
90403<br>
+1-310-597-4040<br>
techlady@techlady.com<br>
Skype: thetechlady<br><br>
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