[OSM-talk] [Talk-us] TIGER 2007, first OSM data

[Dave Hansen]

On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 22:58 -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Dave Hansen <dave at sr71.net> wrote:
> > You can run it like this:
> >
> > perl tiger-shp-to-osm.pl data/ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2007FE/41_OREGON/41055_Sherman/fe_2007_41055_edges.zip  > out-dave.osm
> >
> > Don't count on any more tarball releases.  I think I'll just stick it in
> > a git repo and forget about it.
> 
> Dave - Thanks!  A couple of small problems so far:
> 
> - The tarball doesn't include "daveperl.pm"; I found it elsewhere on your site.
> - Latitude and longitude seem to be reversed in the output, at least
> when I use the data for Webb County, Texas (FIPS 48479) as the input.
> This *really* confuses JOSM (e.g. it hangs).

Heh, I noticed that too once I ran it on my county.  I think you're the
only other one to notice. :)

> I fixed this problem using:
> 
> sed -e 's/lat=/xxx=/g' -e 's/lon=/lat=/g' -e 's/xxx=/lon=/' <
> TX-webb.osm >| TX-webb-fixed.osm
> 
> As the accuracy improvement project hasn't affected this area yet, the
> shapefiles aren't any improvement over the existing data (and are
> worse than the manual edits a few of us have made), but hopefully the
> effort will be worthwhile elsewhere!

If you know of another county that has had improvements that you want to
check, let me know.  I'll run it on any new counties, too.

-- Dave