[OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Karlruhe Scheme addressing ways from 2009 TIGER data

Dave Hansen dave at sr71.net
Sat Nov 14 18:22:30 GMT 2009


On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 23:56 -0800, Dan Homerick wrote:
> i, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Apollinaris Schoell <aschoell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>                 
>                 I'm highly in favor of doing the import, regardless. I
>                 think the inaccuracies will be far easier to fix than
>                 to put the addressing in from scratch. I've done a lot
>                 of mapping in my area, but haven't been willing to
>                 start doing addresses, even before I knew that the
>                 TIGER import was coming down the line. I would be
>                 willing to search out and fix errors though, since all
>                 it will take is changing a few nodes.
>         

>         That's just not happening. If bad data is in it's hard to
>         verify it's wrong. If in doubt don't import. Empty map will
>         tell everyone immediately there is work to do. Wrong data is
>         hard to even figure out there is a need to survey.
> 
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by, "That's just not happening." Clarify?

I think he means that he'd prefer it not be imported.

However, unless Apollinaris was appointed supreme OSM dictator and I
missed it, I'm not sure it means any more than Apollinaris stating his
opinion.

If we can come up with a scheme for getting the addressing imported in a
sane fashion and the consensus is that people want it done that way,
it'll get imported.  There are still quite a few squeaky wheels that
like to grumble about TIGER, but I haven't heard a single person say
that it did more harm than good.

-- Dave





More information about the talk mailing list