[Talk-us] Adding Tiger 2011 Data

[Ian Dees]

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us>wrote:

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> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Josh Doe <josh at joshdoe.com> wrote:
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>> Please don't any more for a bit. Share with the list your recent
>> changesets, and the scripts you are using to convert the files. Also see
>> the manual conflation article on the wiki for my process. I can send a link
>> when I'm at a desktop.
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> I'm not using scripts.  It is all manual cut and past as described in the
> manual conflation wiki article.  After copying the tiger data, the new way
> needs to be assigned the appropriate highway type, in my case it is all
> residential.  Then the name needs to be added.  Copying in the tiger data
> gives a Key value of FULLNAME.  The FULLNAME is copied into a name key.
>  With the street names in this area of Tucson, the direction, i.e. N is
> expanded and the suffix, ln, dr, pl, etc. also need expanding.   As you
> mention in the wiki, the new ways need to be connected to the existing ways.
>

The important part is what tool you used to generate the OSM files from
TIGER2011 data in the first place. Did you download it from somewhere?
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