[Talk-us] Fixing TIGER

[Apollinaris Schoell]

>
> my pet goal is missing from that list (it's only sort of a part
> of "Wrong road classification"), and that is, missing "surface"
> keys, to indicate whether a road is paved or not.  this is a key
> piece of information for many kinds of navigation (bicycling,
> motorcycling, and for many others in the case of foul weather),
> and it's completely missing (or mostly incorrect) on all other
> free and non-free maps.
>

this is not tiger specific. you can use tags like track_type,  
surface .... or come up with better ones.
  but agree tiger data is very bad in this regard. nearly all tracks  
are defined as highway=residential. even the ones which are 4WD roads  
in the USGS maps.

> unfortunately, there's not much incentive to add the information
> to OSM, because none of the renderers will display it anyway.  :-)
>
> (i started a thread on this earlier this year, and then dropped
> the ball by not continuing to lobby for changes to the renderers
> to fix this problem.)

use track_type and this is rendered different in osmarender. for me it  
seems counter intuitive how tracktype and path,sac_scale are rendered  
but it's a start. it's a chicken-egg situation. if there is no data  
there is no reason to change the renderer ....

>
> paul
> =---------------------
> paul fox, pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 58.1  
> degrees)
>
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