[Talk-us] Finding new roads

[Josh Doe]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Nick Hocking <nick.hocking at gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe that OSm's most usefull attribute is to be up to date.
>
> The only real way to do this is with a local mapper but bringing
> the USA up to Tiger 2011 up-to-datedness would be a great start.
>
>
> Are there tools to....
>
> 1. Compare named OSM roads with Tiger 2011 roads and highlight
> just the  new ones.
>
> 2.Compare Bing imagery with Tiger 2011 and highlight any
> apparent sealed roads that do not have Tiger 2011 ways.
>
> Roads currently traced but not named can already be targeted
> well using OSMI highways facility and could be fixed first.

I've been meaning to do some buffer analysis in my county to find
roads that are missing or grossly misplaced [0]. Doing it for a county
or for the whole US isn't that much different aside from computation
time and disk usage. Of course this doesn't catch name or
classification differences, but it would be a help.
-Josh

[0]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/BMO#Differential_import