[Talk-us] Excess TIGER nodes in a way

[Joseph Scanlan]

There's a question at the end but I'll start with a little background.

Last weekend I took a drive that included US 93 in Arizona.

Naturally, I wanted to compare my GPS trace, the Yahoo images, and my 
memory to the OSM data.  Much of this piece of US 93 is divided highway 
(is this also called a double carriage way?) but the TIGER data in OSM 
shows a single primary way.  I moved the existing way to the northbound 
side of the highway and drew a fresh southbound way.  They are both 
tagged "highway=primary", "oneway=yes", "ref=US 93", and "name=United 
States Highway 93".  The TIGER tags remain on the northbound side but 
are not duplicated southbound.  So far I'm happy with this.

Parts of this highway are quit straight:

 	http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=35.396938&mlon=-114.259680&zoom=14

The northbound way has (mostly) all the nodes from the TIGER data. 
Southbound only has as many as I needed to connect to other ways, copy 
the shape of the northbound way, and a few more where a northbound node 
might have marked something in the image but there wasn't a way in the 
data.  This part bothers me.

Now the question.  Should I 1) delete the (what I believe are) extra 
TIGER nodes from the northbound way, 2) add a bunch of nodes to the 
southbound way to make it match northbound, or 3) call it done and learn 
to be happy?

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