[Talk-us] TIGER road expansion code

[Anthony]

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
>
>> What percentage of roads, where the old script would have punted, are
>> now being expanded correctly?
>
> The new script is up now.
>
> I used Maryland as a test case
>
> In Maryland the number went from 21 roads it couldn't expand to 1.
>
> But that's 20 out of the ~70k it *was* able to expand, so either you
> could say it handles 99.5% of all previously unexpandable roads, or it
> handled .0003% of all total roads.

By "roads" you mean unique names?

In any case, if it's only 20 for Maryland, it's probably a low enough
number for the country that they can all be manually reviewed.

>> What error rate is acceptable?
>
> "As low as possible"

So any error rate is acceptable?