[Talk-us] Changes to TIGER data

[Karl Newman]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:

> 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 So the final question is: If there are fairly large outdated data sets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
>

Or better yet, delete that tag and save some space in the database.

Karl
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