[Talk-us] Google maps source

Brian May bmay at mapwise.com
Tue Jun 4 18:24:54 UTC 2013


On 6/4/2013 11:28 AM, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net> wrote:
>
>> a road name from TIGER 2012 is a much better choice as it avoids the
>> potential issues sourcing a name from Google presents. a ground
>> survey would always be best, of course.
> We should never be sourcing names from Google, ever, but TIGER 2012 is
> also not a choice one should make without checking, because as we
> discussed on the import committee meeting last night, some of the
> names in TIGER are completely wrong.
>
> - Serge
>
I very rarely use TIGER 2012. I use county GIS streets and the county 
Property Appraiser site address info. Many counties use their street 
data for 911 and in Florida, most of the Property Appraiser offices do 
an excellent job of maintaining site addresses.

Brian




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