[Talk-us] TIGER considered harmful

[am12]

> Go click on Mushinski Road and reverse it.  Nothing happens to the
> nodes.  They stay right where they are, and they keep the same exact
> numbers on them.

>>From 6501 to 6513 Mushinski Road runs west, so right is North,
> regardless of the direction of the way representing Mushinski Road.

The problem with this is that it does not tell us which side is even and
which is odd, for the great majority of US streets which are numbered that
way.  On a large urban boulevard with an island down the middle, or turn
restrictions, that is important information which we are throwing away.

- Alan