[Talk-us] Best practices for dealing with old TIGER tags?

[Steven Johnson]

I typically correct the geometry and delete the 'TIGER:reviewed=no', but
leave the rest because I'm superstitious...

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On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Russell Deffner <russdeffner at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Kevin, I'll try to add some context. Here's a neat use for the new OSM
> Analytics tool developed by HOT:
> http://osm-analytics.org/#/compare/polygon:~lwbS}lpoFipQYwJawGbnQxD/2008...now/highways
>
> If you don't see 'blue' roads, zoom in until you do and then swipe
> left/right - you can see the original TIGER roads were 'relatively
> accurate', i.e. you can follow X road, turn left on Y, etc, etc. but
> position and geometry is 'horrible'. And yes, there's many 'ghost roads',
> etc. which maybe once was a track that the power company or someone used to
> 'get back into the woods/cut-across/etc.' but are not 'roads' as the
> average reasonable person would consider. Definitely take a look at
> Wandcrest Park for a 'what the heck happened there' that took a drive back
> in there to figure out.
>
> FYI, of course anyone is welcome to critique (and several have) my 'home
> area'; i.e. I realized from day 1 I would probably be one of, if not the
> only, OSM-er in Park County, Colorado:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/439376 - I am basically working it
> from north to south, but as Wolfgang said - some of the things/ways I
> mapped early on, I do very differently now and it will forever be a work in
> progress. One of those things was my first focus was on cleaning up road
> geometry; so no, I didn't add surface or smoothness, etc. tags. Around here
> I can show you a paved road that you might not want to drive your
> high-clearance vehicle down, and a dirt road that people drive their
> low-clearance 'race cars' down at high speeds. Point being, it's not a
> 'simple' equation to show 'quality' of roads.
>
> =Russ
>
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