[OSM-dev] Deleting TIGER node tags

Russ Nelson russ at cloudmade.com
Sun Jun 28 03:21:00 BST 2009


On Jun 27, 2009, at 10:16 AM, Stellan Lagerstrom wrote:

> Greg Stark wrote:
>> Also, are ways actually entirely in one county or another? It seems  
>> to
>> me they would often span borders.
>>
>>
> That is how they are reported to the census bureau. Every county  
> reports
> on the parts of roads that lie within its borders.
> They rarely match up exactly enough at the boundary for the import  
> to be
> able to join them up.

Where the TIGER data is in good shape, they do line up exactly.  I can  
point you to some examples.  Can you point me to some examples where  
they don't line up?

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