[Talk-us] Changes to TIGER data

[Karl Newman]

Sorry, I generally use JOSM (but I haven't been doing much mapping lately,
more programming if anything). I'm sure there's a way, so I'm replying to
the list where someone more knowledgeable can reply.

Karl

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Nathan West <nate.ewest at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have been using potlatch to make all of my edits. Is there a way to
> delete sections of ways and their points? This needs to be done for some
> ancient pieces of road that do not exist anyone in my area and for small
> sections of the old railway.
>
> thanks for all of your help, all of the suggestions have been really
> helpful.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Karl Newman <siliconfiend at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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 So the final question is: If there are fairly large outdated data sets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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