[OSM-talk] TIGER cleannup

[Karl Newman]

On Nov 16, 2007 6:27 AM, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 16, 2007 2:19 PM, Paul Fox <pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us> wrote:
> > i don't think anyone commented on my question below, and since the
> > topic of how the TIGER import relates to local edits has been raised
> > again, i'm still curious -- how will the _next_ TIGER import relate
> > to local edits, especially to local edits to the previous TIGER data.
> > or, is the plan to somehow only apply diffs from the TIGER dataset?
>
> The reason you don't get a response is because no-one has any idea. In
> NL we're likely to get government street data in a few years, and we
> also have no idea how to deal with that...
>
> It's a Hard Problem (tm).
>
> Have a ncie day,
> --
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/

The story I've heard about the TIGER data is that it's a one-shot
deal. US Census gave us a bootstrap, but after that, it's up to us to
clean up, enhance, and maintain.

Karl Newman