[OSM-talk] TIGER 101

raphael Jacquot sxpert at sxpert.org
Fri Dec 1 16:20:23 GMT 2006


bvh wrote:
> 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?

the full doc is available at the source :


http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/




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