[OSM-newbies] New contributor and a big question

[Thomas Wood]

2009/6/2 Stephen L Johnson <sjohnson at monsters.org>:
> 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?

See this wiki page for general TIGER fixup things -
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TIGER_fixup

There's nothing wrong with trashing the existing tiger data, as long
as you replace it with more accurate data, of course :)

Further questions regarding TIGER data itself should probably be
directed to talk-us who have more experience with this stuff.


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Regards,
Thomas Wood
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