[Talk-ca] [Talk-us] TIGER considered harmful

[Dan Putler]

Dave,

One other thing to think about is that a lot of cities and counties in
the US (and to a lesser extent Canada, but the city of Vancouver has)
are starting to release their data to the public, under a license that
is compatible with OSM (often in the public domain). In Canada this does
not matter as much (the National Road Network is based on getting data
from local jurisdictions and then standardizing the fields), but in the
US it matters more (the US Census Bureau didn't go this route). The
upshot, for a number of US counties you would rather use the county
centerline road data rather than TIGER data as the basis of the import.

Dan

On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 14:36 -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 14:33 -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > Yeah, and that does sound like a really nice way to do it, especially
> > when there is existing data.  
> 
> Anybody want to be on the USA "conversion team"? :)
> 
> -- Dave
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Dan Putler
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University of British Columbia