[Talk-us] [OT] Anyone ever talked about adding more Land Ownership data to OSM?

[Andrew Guertin]

On 01/07/2013 10:45 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
> On 1/7/13 10:37 PM, the Old Topo Depot wrote:
>> 
>> We do have an issue with US state and county borders, as some are 
>> missing, incorrect, incomplete or incorrectly tagged.  Perhaps we
>> can organize a cleanse the state and county borders project to
>> improve the data quality and currentness.
>> 
> i would like to switch the USGS based state border of NY for what i 
> perceive to be the somewhat more accurate borders from TIGER.  i've
> temporarily stalled on bringing in town borders from TIGER because of
> discrepancies along the state line between NY and New England. i
> gather that many of the state borders are USGS and that the TIGER
> borders may be better. this is a non-trivial exercise as any
> county/town borders that share ways with the state borders will need
> to be fixed up.
> 
> richard

If and when you do this, could you compare to the VCGI data for the
NY/VT border at
http://www.vcgi.org/dataware/?page=./search_tools/search_action.cfm&query=theme&theme=003&x=17&y=6
(BoundaryOther_BNDHASH layer)?

I plan to import VT town boundaries from that file at some point, but
was not planning on touching any of the state boundaries (except to
connect town boundaries to them). I'd be interested to know how well
that data source matches others for the state boundary, too, though.

Further information about this file (licensing, etc) on the imports list.

--Andrew