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

[Matthew Perry]

On Dec 13, 2007 7:42 AM, Dave Hansen <dave at sr71.net> wrote:
> 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. :)
>

As we go through the process, let's keep track of the details at:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/TIGER#Merging_Existing_Linework_with_TIGER_data


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Matthew T. Perry
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