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

[Anthony]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Lord-Castillo, Brett
<BLord-Castillo at stlouisco.com> wrote:
> I'm still getting a handle on the schemas in use for OSM, and noticed that concept of matching address nodes to ways when doing imports.
> I'm not so sure this will be very functional for floodplain counties or heavy agricultural counties. We have thousands of addresses with no corresponding roads; the roads were wiped out in 1993 but the parcels still remain (and we even get regular 911 calls for those addresses on roads that have not existed for 15 years). Same thing for rural areas; plenty of addresses with no corresponding roads.

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Can you give some details (privately if you'd like).  I'd like to see
what TIGER has in this situation.

When you say "the roads were wiped out", is it still possible to
travel (by vehicle, or otherwise) over the area where the road
previously existed?  Is there still a right of way over that area?  If
so, there still should be a way, even if it's just highway=path,
smoothness=horrible/very_horrible/impassible.

This is an interesting example.  Thanks for bringing it to us.