[OSM-talk] TIGER upload queue (maps of entire US)

[Alex Mauer]

Adam Schreiber wrote:
> Is there a procedure that should be used by contributors for merging
> areas that have been mapped with the TIGER data?

My procedure has been to use josm-latest to load the County.osm,
download the OSM data into a new layer, and delete from the tiger data
anything that exists in the OSM data.  Some might disagree, but I find
that the TIGER data is sufficiently inaccurate that the amount of data
lost is minimal at worst.  The most important thing I can think of that
we might want to retain is the tiger:tlid tags; and those are easily
lost by merging two ways anyway.  Other than that, tiger really only
contains two relevant pieces of information: the name, and the highway
classification.  It also has the "underpass" and the "separated" tags,
but those are pretty much irrelevant for OSM's purposes.

-Alex Mauer "hawke"

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