[Talk-us] Tiger Data 2007

[Dave Hansen]

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 16:29 -0700, Alan Brown wrote:
> 
> When that data is imported - how will you know that a missing road was
> intentionally deleted from OSM, or simply missing from the dataset?
> If they reappear, it would be rather irritating to me.  It's not
> "overruling" me, in the sense that the old geometry no longer exists
> for you to see that I've editted it.
> You could merely import changes to TIGER - that would be part of being
> "paranoid" - and that would address this situation.

That's a really good, and really functional idea.

We could create convert old TIGER->OSM and new TIGER->OSM.  Then, create
a JOSM-style diff and apply it to the database.  If it applies cleanly,
commit it.  Otherwise, throw it away and move on.

-- Dave