[OSM-talk] TIGER 101

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On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:21:41PM +0000, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
> Yes, but we could write them, and should write them, not only for Tiger
> but for other badly entered manual data. Storage really isn't a big
> issue. The storage for Tiger can only be a fraction of storing GPS
> points for a similar area if we were to gather them at the kind of
> resolution needed to derive a map as good as the tiger map.

I'd be interested to do this. Is there a description of the TIGER
format somewhere? Are there other 'badly' defined formats that we
can use as an underlay to trace over?

> We need to get the data in, so that people can see it, then we can clean
> it, either manually, assisted (with tools like the new automatic
> waymaker for JOSM - we could have an automatic node-merger for josm for
> example), or fully automatically by a bot.

Not sure how feasable it is, but if someone in the US states an
intention to work on an area. Could we do a raw TIGER import of
just his area? This might buy us some time to figure out a better
approach.

cu bart