[Talk-us] identifying TIGER deserts

Michal Migurski mike at teczno.com
Fri Jan 4 18:31:07 GMT 2013


On Jan 4, 2013, at 1:33 AM, Alex Barth wrote:

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


Interesting—how would you characterize "bad" roads? One characteristic of crappy TIGER data is road wiggliness, is that what you mean?

-mike.

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