[Talk-us] TIGER fixup guidance wanted

[Apollinaris Schoell]

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Jeff Barlow <Jeff at wb6csv.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
> good


> 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?
>
>
delete them, tiger is full off old roads which don't exist at all. Sometimes
it may be still used as a hiking, cycle  path or track. then change the
highway tag.



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


> 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?
>
>
no worries, there are no plans to merge any tiger data with new imports.
this is such a difficult task. very unlikely that any one will volunteer for
such a project.


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

you can also try to search the archives, there was couple of threads about
this topic.
and most important have fun and don't be shy to make your own decisions how
to fix things. after all tiger is just a start.



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