[Talk-us] TIGER 2007, first OSM data

[Dale Puch]

Just to get you excited?   I also noticed a 2008 folder at
ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger<http://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2007FE/41_OREGON/41055_Sherman/fe_2007_41055_edges.zip>/
BUT it isn't readable yet :/  No idea when it will be either.

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Dave Hansen <dave at sr71.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 22:58 -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Dave Hansen <dave at sr71.net> wrote:
> > > You can run it like this:
> > >
> > > perl tiger-shp-to-osm.pl data/
> ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2007FE/41_OREGON/41055_Sherman/fe_2007_41055_edges.zip > out-dave.osm
> > >
> > > Don't count on any more tarball releases.  I think I'll just stick it
> in
> > > a git repo and forget about it.
> >
> > Dave - Thanks!  A couple of small problems so far:
> >
> > - The tarball doesn't include "daveperl.pm"; I found it elsewhere on
> your site.
> > - Latitude and longitude seem to be reversed in the output, at least
> > when I use the data for Webb County, Texas (FIPS 48479) as the input.
> > This *really* confuses JOSM (e.g. it hangs).
>
> Heh, I noticed that too once I ran it on my county.  I think you're the
> only other one to notice. :)
>
> > I fixed this problem using:
> >
> > sed -e 's/lat=/xxx=/g' -e 's/lon=/lat=/g' -e 's/xxx=/lon=/' <
> > TX-webb.osm >| TX-webb-fixed.osm
> >
> > As the accuracy improvement project hasn't affected this area yet, the
> > shapefiles aren't any improvement over the existing data (and are
> > worse than the manual edits a few of us have made), but hopefully the
> > effort will be worthwhile elsewhere!
>
> If you know of another county that has had improvements that you want to
> check, let me know.  I'll run it on any new counties, too.
>
> -- Dave
>
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Dale Puch
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