[Talk-ca] Importing geobase data, learning from everyone

[Dave Hansen]

On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 11:20 -0800, Sam Vekemans wrote:
> (aside: What about converting rejected data to 'highway=road'?)
> when new geobase data is available, the script would be the same, only
> look at the road name and road class in close proximity, and add whats
> missing.

This is a very easy thing to say, but exceeding hard to accomplish in
practice.  We've thought about it extensively for the newer TIGER
revisions, but haven't come up with anything that we're happy with.
There are just plain too many corner cases to deal with.

-- Dave