[Imports] US Forest Service Data

Mike N niceman at att.net
Fri Feb 4 03:33:36 GMT 2011


On 2/3/2011 9:17 PM, Tom Ponte wrote:
> But before I get too far along with that is there any talk of updating
> these roads with newer data like the newer tiger data –(for all forest
> service districts)? I haven’t looked into how much of that there is in
> the areas managed by the FS to see it is available or if it is any
> better – as good as etc. I sort of doubt it is better or as good unless
> it is now derived from FS data somehow.

   I believe that having the best data is the way to go - in this case 
if you can verify that centerlines are accurate, current and have names, 
it is unlikely that the latest TIGER would be better, so a replace and 
connect to border roads operation would seem to be a good plan.




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