[OSM-dev] GRR!

Ben Gimpert ben at somethingmodern.com
Wed Apr 12 12:06:21 BST 2006


On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 11:49:28AM +0100, Andy Robinson wrote:
> To save doing it more than once, would there be some benefit in a basic
> analysis of a sample set of TIGER data so that if there is the ability to
> map to tags it can be done at this stage?

Good idea -- go for it.

I'm out, since my eyes started bleeding the last time I tried groking
the entirety of the TIGER specs.


> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: dev-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:dev-bounces at openstreetmap.org]
> >On Behalf Of Ben Gimpert
> >Sent: 12 April 2006 11:34
> >To: dev at openstreetmap.org
> >Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] GRR!
> >
> >On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 11:00:50AM +0100, Tom Carden wrote:
> >> Also, Ben - are you going to use tags etc in a way that would allow
> >> people to make pretty maps using Osmarender
> >> (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmarender) etc.?
> >
> >Umm, the ways will have "name" and "from_zipcode" and "to_zipcode" tags
> >but that's it.  I haven't had the masochism to figure out if there's
> >even a notion of street "bigness" in the TIGER data.





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