[Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

[Nathan Edgars II]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:33 PM, andrzej zaborowski <balrogg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The only tiger tag that is important to keep (to me) is the
>> tiger:tlid, all the other values can be pulled from the original TIGER
>> database provided the TLID.
>
> Unfortunately, that's also one of the hardest ones to keep, because it
> doesn't have any real world meaning.

It also sometimes gets truncated when long ways are combined, since
the long list of TLIDs becomes longer than the maximum field size.