[Talk-us] Karlruhe Scheme addressing ways from 2009 TIGER data

Anthony osm at inbox.org
Sat Nov 14 13:32:36 GMT 2009


On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net> wrote:
> On 11/13/09 10:43 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
>> O
>> TIGER is an incredibly huge data set.  It comes from what may be the
>> most diverse set of primary sources of anything in the world short of
>> OSM itself.
>>
>> It shouldn't be trusted explicitly (no single map should).  Do you have
>> some more constructive information about places where you've found it to
>> be inaccurate?
>>
> i have found it to be not far off in NY state, but i was pretty
> horrified at how bad it was
> between Sheperdstown WV and Harpers Ferry WV when i was in that area in
> August.
>
> clearly there is a lot of variation.
>
> richard

Yes, exactly.

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Dave Hansen <dave at sr71.net> wrote:
> Do you have
> some more constructive information about places where you've found it to
> be inaccurate?

For pretty much all of Florida there is parcel-by-parcel address
information available from the county.  If you want to import address
information, that would be much more accurate than TIGER.

I'm sorry if you don't find this constructive.




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