[OSM-newbies] New contributor and a big question

[Stephen L Johnson]

It looks like I'm about to become involved big time with OpenStreet Map.
I'll be contributing to the Arkanass, US area. I'm main interested in
cleaning up the data so accurate routing can be done with the OSM data.

The major issues I see in the Tiger Data is is just being wrong. Street
Junctions where they don't exist. Wrong ways connections at the bogus
junctions. Section of ways tagged with very old names. Etc, etc. The
main question I have at the moment is how sacrosanct are the Tiger Data
tags on the data? Do they need to be preserved or can they be
removed/edited? Would is be proper to just remove Tiger data and re-add
the information into the data if it would be easier?
 
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Stephen L Johnson <sjohnson at monsters.org>