[Talk-us] Fixing TIGER

[Dave Hansen]

On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 09:04 -0700, Apollinaris Schoell wrote:
>   but agree tiger data is very bad in this regard. nearly all tracks  
> are defined as highway=residential.

Well, you can call it good or bad, but the fact of the matter is that
TIGER was never really intended to be a road map.  highway=residential
was the fallback for things for which we didn't have a better type.
They were all smaller roads and that seemed to make them render in the
most reasonable way.  I think of it like meaning, "small unimportant
road which doesn't matter unless you're close to it".  You'd never use
these for long-distance travel, for instance.

-- Dave