[OSM-dev] Update of TIGER ruby import code

[Dave Hansen]

On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 15:56 -0500, Alex Mauer wrote:
> Dave Hansen wrote:
> > First of all, all of the actual TIGER parsing code here came from
> > Brandon Martin-Anderson.  All I did was spit out some OSM objects from
> > the data he produced.  He did all of the hard work.
> > 
> > This code takes a set of TIGER shapefiles, and turns them into an
> > OSM .xml file.  That file can then be opened in JOSM and reviewed before
> > uploading.  If anyone just wants to look at their county, I'll be happy
> > to run this for them and I'll just send you the .osm file.
> > 
> > You can get the code here:
> > 
> > 	http://sr71.net/~dave/osm/tiger/
> > 
> > But, don't go uploading anything produced with this just yet.  We need
> > to make sure it's actually producing good, sane data.  Feel free to go
> > run it on a county that you know well, and closely examine the output.
> > Report anything that looks strange or incorrect.  
> 
> After a first (very) quick look, I have the following comments:
> 
> Having the CFCC as an OSM tag would be very good.

Got it.  Should be in the next release.

> I think some of the tags should be namespaced:
> reviewed -> tiger:reviewed
> name_direction_type -> tiger:name_direction_type
> name_base -> tiger:name_base
> name_type -> tiger:name_type
> name_direction_suffix -> tiger:name_direction_suffix
> separated -> tiger:separated
> zip_left -> tiger:zip_left
> zip_right -> tiger:zip_right

These should be fixed up now.

> Should it be name_direction_type or name_direction_prefix?

I don't feel too strongly about it either way.  "prefix" sounds OK to
me.

> A74 should probably map to service rather than unclassified.

Fixed.

-- Dave