[Talk-us] TIGER considered harmful

Paul Johnson baloo at ursamundi.org
Thu Nov 19 21:30:46 GMT 2009


Anthony wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Dave Hansen <dave at sr71.net> wrote:
>> So, what I did initially was go and contact all of the mappers in the US
>> that I could find.  I asked them all individually what should be done in
>> their local areas and I believe I was able to follow their wishes
>> without failure.
>
> Are you planning to do the same with the TIGER address import?
>
>> If you want to do the same with TIGER removal, I'd
>> welcome it, especially if you have something superior to contribute.  On
>> a small or large scale, we should *NEVER* keep any data in the map just
>> because it is what was already there.
>
> Yeah, most of the TIGER import isn't that hard to remove (an exception
> would be those CDPs, which I'd have probably removed by now if it were
> simple, since they're completely out of touch with reality).  If you
> don't like it, just remove it right before you add something better.

The other thing is there's at least one person who gets bothered if
TIGER data is touched, as I discovered re-drawing I405 in Oregon while
it was closed for repave...





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