[OSM-talk] TIGER cleannup

Beej Jorgensen beej at beej.us
Sat Nov 17 05:23:03 GMT 2007


Andrew MacKinnon wrote:
> Nice sounding, but unrealistic. The US is a huge country.

This is true, but I honestly haven't done the math.  How many updates
have to happen to make this work?  How many people will participate?
Maybe you're right that it's intractable.  Or maybe not. :-)

> Undoubtedly we will miss parts of it, and thus we will want to be
> able to update OpenStreetMap using the most recent TIGER data.

Preferably we'll only update to the most recent TIGER data if it's
correct.  I don't want to keep going back to fix it. :)

-Beej





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