[Talk-us] On the subject of TIGER

[Theodore Book]

Dear Chris,

Sorry to be slow in responding, but does your message mean that you 
already have scripts to convert the Tiger shapefile data to OSM format? 
  If you do, it would be great to get a copy of them.

TB

Chris Lawrence wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Dave Hansen <dave at sr71.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 14:07 -0400, Rev. Theodore Book wrote:
>>> I just took a peak at the data, and noticed that it doesn't have any
>>> information on road category - how did you do that on the main import
>>> - simply by the name of the road?
>> There's a concept in TIGER called a 'CFCC'.  I have no idea what it
>> stands for. :)
> 
> "Census Feature Classification Code"  They appear in all of the TIGER
> data, including the Place boundaries that I'm working on importing
> (Florida is currently being uploaded in 1000-item chunks; Texas got
> interrupted by the API switch and will have to be revisited later).
> 
> The CFCCs don't do a good job of distinguishing residential from
> non-residential (through) streets in cities and conflate the highway
> network class with the functional classification (type) of roadway,
> but they're at least a first stab.
> 
> And, there are some areas where the 2008 maps are a big improvement;
> there are others, however, where manual editing of old data has the
> maps better than 2008.
> 
> 
> Chris
> 
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