[Talk-us] braided streets

[Dave Hansen]

On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 23:59 -0700, Alan Millar wrote:
> 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?

So, the original TIGER "tlid"s are still preserved in the data.  Once
OSM has a proper way to store address ranges, we can go back, look up
the tlids and add the addresses. 

-- Dave