[Talk-us] On the subject of TIGER

[Dave Hansen]

On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 14:07 -0400, Rev. Theodore Book wrote:
> I just took a peak at the data, and noticed that it doesn't have any
> information on road category - how did you do that on the main import
> - simply by the name of the road?

There's a concept in TIGER called a 'CFCC'.  I have no idea what it
stands for. :)

We mapped each CFCC to a set of OSM tags:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TIGER_to_OSM_Attribute_Map

-- Dave