[Talk-us] Problems with Tiger railroad data
Russ Nelson
nelson at crynwr.com
Tue Jun 3 18:06:31 BST 2008
Alex Mauer writes:
> Probably not. Railroad tends to be very hard to see from aerial
> photography, and TIGER railroad data has been very good, in my
> experience much better than the regular road data.
Not in New York.
> I think we should leave merging of parallel tracks up to the renderer,
> rather than removing them from the data. IMO the data should reflect
> what's on the ground.
Sometimes you have parallel tracks owned by different railroads
running through the same right-of-way. Those should definitely not be
merged.
--
--my blog is at http://blog.russnelson.com | Software that needs
Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | documentation is software
521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-323-1241 | that needs repair.
Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog |
More information about the Talk-us
mailing list