<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div><br>If I understand, a "complete chain" is a single street, so my estimate is off by a factor of 10 .. so over 1000 days for the upload! Can that be right? <br><br>1 road for ever about every 9 people .. that sounds like the US! ;)<br><br>----- Original Message ----<br>From: David Blasby <dblasby@openplans.org><br>Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org<br>Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 6:51:42 PM<br>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] (Easter?) TIGER Import<br><br><div><br>>I can help by asking how many streets in Tiger? ;)<br>><br>>Have no real idea what this number might be. Say there's 1 US street for every 100 people, so about 3 million streets. At 3 second per street, it's just over 100 days .. which actually pretty reasonable .. though
completely unreliable ;)<br>> <br>><br>I just finished loading TIGER 2005fe and found that there were <br>35,809,110 road segments ("complete chains").<br><br>dave<br>ps.<br><a target="_blank" href="http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOSDOC/Loading+TIGER+data">http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOSDOC/Loading+TIGER+data</a><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br>talk@openstreetmap.org<br><a target="_blank" href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk</a><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>