[OSM-newbies] US TIGER vs. user-entered data

[Alex Mauer]

David Carmean wrote:
> I'd hate to lose metadata that might be useful later on, like the zipcode 
> data, etc.  On the other hand, I don't want to make non-TIGER data look like 
> it was actually imported from TIGER.

IMO, it's not worth worrying about.  Anything that would try to use
those tags would need to cope with the situation where they weren't
there anyway, because obviously a road can be added which wasn't in the
TIGER data and wouldn't have those tags.

> A related question: if I need to modify a TIGER-imported road to show two 
> separated opposing directions, since the second direction was not imported 
> from TIGER should it have TIGER attributes??

Nope.

-Alex Mauer "hawke"