[Talk-us] Analysis of US road network and TIGER status

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 17 February 2012 01:04, Mike N <niceman at att.net> wrote:
> On 2/16/2012 6:38 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
>> I did an state-by-state and county-by-county analysis of the road
>> network in the US. I focused particularly on TIGER and user-related
>> metrics.
>> Results (with maps of course) are here:
>>
>> https://oegeo.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/the-state-of-the-openstreetmap-road-network-in-the-us/
>> I'd love to hear your ideas for further analysis, and other feedback.
>
>
>  A very good analysis!   I have some observations, that may or may not be
> significant.
>
>  For the Average version increase over TIGER ways - the effects of the name
> expansion bot may have created the green states out west 'balrog-kun'.
> This might also apply to the 'Percentage untouched TIGER ways' map.

Yes, I had the same feeling watching the visualisations.  You can see
a clear difference between "east" and "west" because of the one
additional revision.

But yes, this is a nice analysis.

Cheers