[Talk-us] braided streets

[Alan Millar]

> On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 17:12 -0700, Alan Millar wrote:
>> AFAIK Tiger doesn't have the concept of ways like we do; it just has
>> the
>> short segments.  I expect that our script takes Tiger segments and
>> assembles them into longer ways.  In this case, it appears our script
>> didn't know which segments went with which logical ways.
>
> Yes, that's exactly it.  I tried to assemble the shorter TIGER segments
> into longer ways.  I wasn't horribly thorough about it.  If the ways had
> the same name, I combined them.  This leads to some "interesting" street
> sometimes, but it was a bit better than a couple million two-node
> ways. :)

Yes, that's for sure.

I have been wondering about one thing, though.  Have we lost something
useful by not having the TIGER street address ranges?  The ability to
interpolate an address on a street seems pretty useful.

Once the Tiger segments are combined into ways and the ways are edited or
moved, it seems like we've lost the ability to go back and get the address
info.

Anyone else thought about this?

- Alan