[Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

[Peter Batty]

Russ, I think you misunderstood my comment. I am in the "TIGER import is a
good thing" camp. But in the areas I have worked in it has needed a fair bit
of minor positional cleanup. My point is that in those cases where you need
to graphically adjust a street, I don't want to have to edit three or more
ways because there are additional address ways on either side of the street.

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Russ Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com> wrote:

> Anthony writes:
>  > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Peter Batty <peter.batty at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>  > > I'm coming a bit late to this debate, but I just wanted to raise
>  > > a fairly basic question, which is whether the Karlsruhe schema is
>  > > the best one to use in the situation we find ourselves in with
>  > > TIGER, where quite a bit of data cleanup is anticipated.
>
> Peter, I have to challenge you on this.  *Some* TIGER data needs quite
> a bit of cleanup.  *Some* TIGER data is already in good shape, and the
> only fixes needed are 1) joining at county borders and 2) unjoining at
> bridges.  Just for grins, I looked at Ogdensburg, NY.  Been there a
> few dozen times and hadn't done any editing (uploading as I send
> this).
>
> Frankly, I see very little that needs correcting, and all the usual
> stuff that needs to be added ... which would need to be added without
> the TIGER data.  Like footpaths, buildings, POIs.
>
> So yeah, a lot of work above and beyond TIGER.  It's not like there's
> a shortage of improvements.  It's ridiculous to claim that the TIGER
> import has caused anybody to not edit.  If it has, then we've failed
> to explain exactly how wonderful OSM can look when it's "fully"
> populated.
>
>  > I signed up for the "USA 'conversion team'" with the express intention
>  > of challenging the use of the Karlsruhe schema.
>
> Anthony, what is your design?  How is it better than Karlsruhe?  Is it
> in the wiki yet, so the rest of us can see it?
>
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