[Talk-us] Removing tiger:* tags

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 31 July 2010 04:06, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:40 PM, andrzej zaborowski <balrogg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> So are you saying you or someone else will be checking all TLIDs
>>>> against the TIGER data and correcting errors and adding missing ones?
>>
>> I can imagine someone making some clever scripts and then manually
>> verifying it where there are doubts as a kind of personal project of
>> the week or something.  A couple of months ago Marcus Wolschon has
>> been reporting on the general talk list on his progress in adding the
>> TMC road IDs to OSM in some parts of Germany or Austria.  TMC is some
>> kind of radio broadcast current traffic amount estimates, some satnavs
>> can use it to avoid traffic jams automatically.
>
> Sounds like a useful ID number to map. Unlike TLIDs.

Internet is a *network* of linked databases [1].. if someone has a TMC
to TIGER mapping, you get a TMC to OSM mapping for free.

Cheers

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lod-datasets_2009-07-14_colored.png
(see US Census bubble)