[OSM-dev] Problems with TIGER Conversion

[Dave Hansen]

On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 13:39 -0500, Yadav Gowda wrote:
> I have been used Dave Hansen's converter (version 0.2) to try and
> convert the TIGER zip files to osm files.
> 
> My first try was for Lake County, IL, which is IL/TGR17097.ZIP.
> 
> It created the file TGR17097.osm.xml which I opened in JOSM to view.
> 
> When I looked at the file, I could see the shape of the county
> properly but when I zoomed in I noticed that it was all just really
> disjointed and none of the ways were connected properly. The points
> were in the right place, but it looked like the ways were just
> randomly being connected.
> 
> I was just wondering if this was a problem on my end or on the part of
> the converter.

That version of the converter is bogus.  See if this is any better.

http://sr71.net/~dave/osm/tiger/tiger-to-osm-0.3.tar.gz

Also, please make sure to cc me if anyone has questions.  You'll get a
faster response.

-- Dave