[OSM-talk] TIGER cleannup

[Paul Fox]

karl wrote:
 > 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).
 > >
...
 > 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.

i see.  thanks for the clarification.  i had already assumed it was
a Hard Problem -- i just wasn't sure whether so many Very Smart People (tm)
had decided to tackle it or not.  :-)

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 36.5 degrees)