[Talk-us] TIGER fixup guidance wanted

[Richard Welty]

On 12/3/09 8:21 PM, Anthony wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Jeff Barlow<Jeff at wb6csv.net>  wrote:
>    
>> 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.
>>      
> If it's unnamed, says tiger:reviewed=no, and you can't find any
> evidence that it exists, delete it.  TIGER has a *lot* of these and
> they're almost all no longer in existence.
>
>    
Tiger also seems to have some roads which developers imagined might come 
into
existence. i've found and deleted a few of these.

old rail lines should be switched over to railway=abandoned if the 
tracks are gone.
if they've been converted into cycleways it's ok to leave 
railway=abandoned while
adding highway=cycleway. i've done that for a bunch of the Mohawk-Hudson
Bike-Hike trail, which uses quite a bit of the old roadbed of the long 
defunct
Troy & Schenectady Railroad (aka New York Central, Penn Central, 
Conrail, and
lastly D&H).

richard