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

[Josh Doe]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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.

Great work! I'd like to see a comparison between road lengths of the
two datasets, and maybe do some buffer analysis to find the length of
roads that aren't anywhere near each other. Also glad to see someone
found ogr2poly useful.
-Josh