[Talk-us] Changes to TIGER data

Richard Weait richard at weait.com
Tue Aug 12 16:44:31 BST 2008


On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 21:55 -0400, Nathan West wrote:
> Hey everyone, I'm pretty new to OSM, and I was wondering what the
> recommended way to make changes to the TIGER data is. The situation
> I'm currently looking at is a 40 mile walk/bike trail that is a
> converted railraod and is still listed as a railroad in OSM. I am also
> fairly sure that while the TIGER rail line matches pretty close, it is
> a little off in areas. 
> 
> So the final question is: If there are fairly large outdated data sets
> that may be off in location, is it easiest to just delete the old way
> and create a new route? (I can get the actual route easily)

make your changes to reflect the truth on the ground to the best of your
ability.  

Once you have reviewed and updated something that was originally TIGER
data, change the 

tiger:reviewed = no 
to 
tiger:reviewed = yes








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