[Talk-us] Boundaries and verifiability (was Re: Retagging hamlets in the US)

[Richard Welty]

On 3/24/15 6:01 PM, Jack Burke wrote:
> I would politely disagree that TIGER is an authoritative source for two reasons:
>
> 1) The extensive TIGER cleanup that is still being done years after the last import, and
well, if that data were removed and sourced externally, the problems
with TIGER boundary
data and OSM would change in character rather substantially.
> 2) While helpful at compiling data, the federal government is not authoritative for any boundaries within a state (and once established, not even for the boundaries of the states themselves).
as part of the ongoing improvements in TIGER, the Census Bureau is
increasingly pulling data from County GIS departments rather than
maintaining it themselves. the quality is much better. and since it's
digital, the game of telephone metaphor does not apply so much any
more.

richard

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