[OSM-dev] Deleting TIGER node tags

[Andy Allan]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:33 PM, David Earl<david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
> Can I suggest that an ID is maintained in a single tag to reference the
> original data that would allow it to be extracted from possibly another
> database.

Sorry, I don't know what you're asking for here. Which of the four
tags mentioned in
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2009-June/016009.html do
you want to keep? Bear in mind that none of the nodes actually exist
in TIGER data, unlike the ways which have a tiger/line-id to link them
between datasets.

> I say this because I found the TIGER data wasn't entirely useless: a few
> months back I was able to process it to add is_in information to places and
> county and state info, all in our more conventional form, and which will
> allow searches to operate much more effectively in the future (when the
> namefinder eventually reloads it all).

Again, I'm not really sure what you're wanting to do here. I assume
you are populating "is_in" tags with county and state information -
that can be done using county polygons. I don't think it needs every
node in the US tagged with the county just in case we need an is_in
tag for that node. Unless I'm missing your point?

Cheers,
Andy