[Talk-us] Fresno has no primary roads

[Metcalf, Calvin (DOT)]

The nice thing about ruby is that it's pretty easy to read with out actually knowing much about ruby and the script that was linked to (attached) seems to be what's on that page meaning it looks to be just poorly phrased 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Martijn van Exel [mailto:m at rtijn.org] 
>Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 1:40 PM
>To: Dave Hansen
>Cc: Nathan Edgars II; talk-us at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Fresno has no primary roads
>
>On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Dave Hansen <dave at sr71.net> wrote:
>> On 02/13/2012 05:19 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
>>> It could just as easily be local mapping gone awry, by a local who
>>> thinks only state highways should be primary. The TIGER 
>import would not
>>> have included any primaries, since there are no U.S. 
>Highways in Fresno
>>> (though any such would be motorway).
>>
>> Here were the a2* mappings from the original import, fwiw:
>>
>This seems to have been taken from
>https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TIGER_to_OSM_Attribute_Map
>What annoys me about that page (a lot, actually) is that there is no
>clarity as to whether this is the *actual* mapping used. The page
>states:
>"It is not clear whether this page matches exactly with the scripts
>that were run in 2007 and 2008, but those interested can view the Ruby
>scripts linked on the TIGER 2005 page, located here."
>Before I do all that, maybe there's someone here who can clarify?
>There's also https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TIGER_2005 which
>links there (under 'See Also') describing this page as 'the attribute
>mapping that may have been used'.
>
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