[OSM-talk] TIGER import speckled with bits of motorway?

[Dave Hansen]

On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 11:24 +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> 
>     what's the reason behind these little bits of motorway in the  
> midst of Washington D.C.?
> 
> http://geo.topf.org/comparison/index.html? 
> mt0=googlemap&mt1=mapnik&lon=-77.0467222&lat=38.9113388&z=16
> 
> It seems that many exits from roundabouts are tagged as motorway.

TIGER doesn't differentiate motorway_link from primary_link (among
others).  These were probably mis-labeled in the TIGER data originally.

I'm going to start coding this one of these days:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Automation

I'd like to steal (and keep stealing) code from the JOSM validator
plugin, ideally.

-- Dave