[OSM-talk] TIGER in Santa Barbara County, CA

[Stephen Coast]

On 13 Dec 2007, at 03:52, Matthew Perry wrote:

> Dave,
>
> On Dec 12, 2007 11:25 PM, Dave Hansen <dave at sr71.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 17:56 -0800, Matthew Perry wrote:
>>> How about this for a solution? All Tiger data within the BBOX of
>>> 34.35, -119.93, 34.52, -119.61 gets removed. Then we can merge
>>> everything along the edges? I think thats a fair choice.
>>
>> Just a quick in here look shows me that TIGER adds an awful lot of  
>> stuff
>> to this area.
>>
>> This is completely unscientific, but I took a fairly random chunk of
>> area in Santa Barbara county:
>>
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?mlat=34.48462670546644&mlon=-119.73978426792107&zoom=11
>>
>> There are ~6800 objects in there.
>>
>> 96% of them are TIGER objects, 3% are from you, and a very small  
>> portion
>> are from other sources.  Now, I could have just happened to pick  
>> the one
>> area that you haven't gotten to.  But, I just want to make sure you
>> understand the magnitude of what you're asking for.  If you really  
>> think
>> it's best for OSM in Santa Barbara to get rid of 96% of its data  
>> (even
>> if it is the _worst_ 96%), then let's go for it.
>
>
> I had originally started OSM due to the poor quality of TIGER data.
> But looking over the recent upload , it actually looks decent (for the
> most part). I think it might be best for the sake of the map to cut my
> losses and just go with the tiger data.
>
> So, in a complete reversal of my previous opinion, would there be a
> way to delete all the road data in that bbox that was created by *me*
> (roads only, leave the cycle and foot paths) ? We can manually merge
> the small amount of data from other users  and fix up the tiger data
> where necessary. That might be the best use of everyone's time.

That's exactly what I was planning to do (manually remove TIGER where  
there was good data). Apologies for not contacting you earlier, I  
mailed dhansen just before getting on a plane here.

Can I buy you a pint to apologise? I'm here till Saturday morning.

have fun,

SteveC | steve at asklater.com | http://www.asklater.com/steve/