[Talk-us] bulk upload of data to OSM: roads, water, and orthos

[Paul Fox]

dave wrote:
 > On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 11:00 -0400, John Callahan wrote:
 > > 
 > > To answer your question...Yes, our new road dataset is a significant
 > > improvement over current TIGER data (which I obtained from
 > > http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2007/tgrshp2007.html)
 > 
 > Could you qualify that a bit for us?  How much better?  In what ways?

i confess i haven't looked closely at the tiger import, but i'd
also be curious about uniformity of the meta-data -- e.g., does
the new data include all the address information that tiger provides?
all the route name/number information?  placename/landmark info? 
there's some value in having all that be uniform across states.

paul
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