[Talk-us] TIGER considered harmful

Randy rwtnospam-newsgp at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 15 20:21:23 GMT 2009


Paul Johnson wrote:

>Dave Hansen wrote:
>
>>If we can come up with a scheme for getting the addressing imported in a
>>sane fashion and the consensus is that people want it done that way,
>>it'll get imported.  There are still quite a few squeaky wheels that
>>like to grumble about TIGER, but I haven't heard a single person say
>>that it did more harm than good.
>
>I firmly believe this.  TIGER contains so many errors in Oregon,
>Washington and Idaho that it would likely be easier to start fresh than
>fix.
>
>1) TIGER data is so out of date for urban parts of Cascadia as to be
>rendered entirely useless.
>
>2) The TIGER import violates one of the most basic principals of OSM:
>"Abbreviations:  DO NOT DO IT."
>
>3) Gotta love how TIGER randomly decides some routes aren't freeways
>when they actually are (and have been for decades).  Washington State
>has literally thousands of miles of expressway and freeway TIGER got
>wrong.
>
>The TIGER import should never have been done.  I wonder how easy it
>would be to undo this until an actually suitable data source can be
>found, since the Fed is doing it on wet bar napkins with "cartographers"
>who wear hockey helmets and ride the short bus to work.  Might as well
>photograph a turd and call it aerial photography of central Idaho for
>the accuracy of TIGER...heck, that photo might actually agree with the
>TIGER data better!

Your mileage may vary.

-- 
Randy





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