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

[Dave Hansen]

On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 15:24 +0000, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
> You should also be able to search for something like
> "-property:source=tiger" to get the non-tiger data.
> 
> Surely if it isn't this easy, then it could be, and we shouldn't spend
> so much time worrying about the Tiger data going over other data.

It would be that easy if all the areas that we cared about were either:

1. TIGER has 100% and is 100% accurate
2. Existing coverage is 100% and is 100% accurate

In reality, we get nice shades of gray.  TIGER is better for some roads,
is worse quality, but has more data.  The real world sucks. :)

-- Dave