[Talk-us] TIGER considered harmful

[Anthony]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:59 AM, am12 <am12 at bolis.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.

If the number is even, it's even.  If the number is odd, it's odd.

I suppose an indicator could be added if *both* even and odd numbers
are on the same side of the road, but I'd have to see how that's
represented in the TIGER data in the first place before I'd suggest
how to do it.