[Talk-us] TIGER considered harmful

Matthias Julius lists at julius-net.net
Wed Nov 18 17:05:52 GMT 2009


Dave Hansen <dave at sr71.net> writes:

> On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 16:24 -0500, Matthias Julius wrote:
>> IMHO it is unfortunate this was not
>> done during the TIGER import.  It would have been easy enough.
>
> Sure.  But, there were 50 other things that were "easy enough" to do.
> Joining county borders, eliminating motorway overpass intersections,
> etc...  I'm pretty sure I didn't refuse the help of anyone offering to
> do this. :)

Of course.  I did not mean that as a complaint.  Everyone is smarter
after the fact.

And it still is relatively easy to fix by a bot.  And since there are
a lot fewer highways than nodes it might only take 1 month to run. ;-)

Matthias




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