[Talk-us] What is the Chicago area TIGER import status?

[Brian Engert]

I ran the converter on cook county and looked at the data.  To me it
looked like the points were fairly far off.  I think it would be a
good idea to import parts of tiger, but a mass import would be a bad
idea imho.  I just wish that cook county loaded into jsom does not
make my computer cry.

Dylan Semler wrote:
> Back in December and January there seemed to have been some discussion
> about importing TIGER data for Cook County, IL.  Dave wanted to hold off
> importing because there had been some work done in Chicago and he didn't
> want to overwrite anyone's work without letting them know[1].  When the
> mappers were asked about uploading the TIGER data, only a few of them
> responded.  Those who did said it would be a good idea[2] (and I
> personally agree).  Many months have passed and it looks like people are
> continuing to map the Chicago area.  Should we push foreword with the
> import so people can map more effectively?
>
> [1]
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2007-December/000011.html
> [2]
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2008-January/000018.html