[Talk-us] TIGER fixup guidance wanted

[Richard Shank]

Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 15:50 -0800, Jeff Barlow wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Cool, more Oregon mappers! :)
>
>   
Hear, hear! Welcome!
>> 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?
>>     
>
> If you've been there and can confirm that there's nothing there, or
> they're bad enough that you can't figure out what they correspond to,
> delete them.  But, I personally don't want people deleting everything
> that doesn't appear on aerial imagery.
>   
I think part of the question here was also about irrigation canals.  If 
you are certain that the way is for a canal, it can be changed to 
waterway=canal http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Dcanal

I would second what Dave said here, deleting can be a problem, 
especially since the aerials aren't always up to date or even clear.  I 
do find the aerials are very helpful in adjusting the locations and 
ending points for the TIGER data.

I would also suggest using OpenStreetBugs when you see something in the 
TIGER data that looks odd but you can't get to the location to check it 
for yourself.  Here is the link 
http://openstreetbugs.schokokeks.org/?lon=-120.12704&lat=43.89472&zoom=8&layers=B00T

Richard
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