[Talk-us] TIGER fixup guidance wanted

[Jeff Barlow]

Hi,

I'm new here and a little unsure of how best to proceed. I'm
having some issues getting JOSM to run but I expect to get those
sorted out soon. Then I want to start working on TIGER fixup.

I'm located in central Oregon, near Bend. I see a lot of mapped
roads around here, imported from TIGER, that are clearly very
wrong.

Most are simply incorrectly located. I can edit those from my own
GPS tracks fairly easily and tag them as reviewed.

Others, all unnamed, I'm less sure how to handle. Many are not
roads at all. Some just simply don't exist. I'm not sure where
they came from. Others seem to roughly correspond to irrigation
canals. 

Should I simply delete these or just change their tags so they
don't render as roads? If the latter, how should they be tagged?

OTOH, there are new roads that aren't in the currently imported
version of the TIGER data. These I can clearly GPS and map.

In all of these cases I'm unsure of how my edits will coexist
future imports of TIGER 2009, 2010, etc. For instance if I just
delete bogus roads will they come back like zombies? 

Perhaps there's some guidance in the Wiki about all this but I
have yet to come across it.

-- 
Jeff Barlow
WB6CSV