[Talk-us] TIGER 2011 Road Tiles

[Martijn van Exel]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Toby Murray <toby.murray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Alan Mintz
> <Alan_Mintz+OSM at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>> Better quality will result if we verify from additional sources, like those
>> available from many counties.
>
> The best quality will result if we grab a GPS unit and a camera and GO
> there ourselves. Just sayin' :)
>
> (yes, I have used TIGER 2011 myself and it is a decent resource. Just
> making sure OSM's primary strength isn't lost in all this talk of
> external data sources!)
>
> Toby
>

Good point Toby. You are right, there has not been too much talk on
this list about actual mapping lately. I haven't done much beyond
remapping SLC lately... And I forgot to bring my GPS when I went
skiing in Alta[1] the other day.

On the topic of TIGER layers: Harry Wood made an interesting
suggestion in the comments section of my blog post on road analysis
(see other post): wouldn't it be interesting to crowdsource
particularly problematic (in terms of alignment) areas of TIGER data?
What do you think? (How) could that work?

[1] http://osm.org/go/T0HHvKaZ-
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