[Talk-us] TIGER considered harmful

Anthony osm at inbox.org
Fri Nov 20 00:35:38 GMT 2009


On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oregon GEO is quite possibly as enlightened about licensing as MassGIS
> too -- if their data are better than Tiger and compatibly licensed
> with OSM, it's worth importing as replacement for unfixed Tiger or
> Tiger that only you have only un-abbreviated.  Hard part is deciding
> what to do about the hand edits, either to tiger imports or new where
> old tiger had nothing. This is the same as the discussion about
> replacing old tiger with new.

Just don't import in areas where the TIGER data has been edited by
hand, right?  The part I'm more hazy on would be connecting the newly
imported roads with the roads that are already there.




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