[Talk-us] identifying TIGER deserts

[Alex Barth]

On Jan 3, 2013, at 7:06 PM, Michal Migurski <mike at teczno.com> wrote:

> On Jan 3, 2013, at 3:25 PM, Alex Barth wrote:
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>> Mike (and anyone else interested in TIGER deserts):
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>> Ruben, Ian and I would love to touch base over voice and see where we can cooperate. Skype or Google Hangout would be great. Could Tuesday 5PM Eastern work?
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> Sounds great, I'm actually in the middle of publishing a followup to the green-means-go map after ploughing through the full planet history dump.

Great Tue 1/8, 5PM Eastern. My handle is lx_barth, I'll be on #osm-dev at the same time (alexb). Anybody who's interested here in identifying TIGER deserts is welcome to join.

I just looked at your new green-means-go map. There is the gap that I'm seeing between what you're doing and what Ruben, Ian and I'd like to do: we're particularly interested in places where the TIGER geography is off. I. e. where roads are not where they should be.

After a first test here with Virginia [1] we saw that TIGER deserts do not necessarily equal bad road geography. So we're right now particularly interested in methods for identifying bad TIGER road geography.

I'm thinking such a "Bad TIGER Roads Map" could be a valuable community resource to see where stuff is worst and needs fixing that we could maintain over time.

[1] http://bl.ocks.org/d/ff2607349777ddee9181/

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