What is the status of rolling TIGER into the OpenStreetMap? My impression was that there was not much going on on the US front with that project. If I was wrong, I'd love to do whatever I can to help get at least a base to work from for the US.
On 1/20/06, Ben Gimpert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi David, > > You might want to look at what's been done for importing TIGER data into > the OpenStreetMap dataset: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/svn/utils/tiger_import/ > > I haven't looked at the Ruby in months but if I remember correctly, it > does the mildly interesting fix of merging erroneously-separated but > identically-named streets. > > Ben > > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 09:35:48AM -0600, David Bitner wrote: > > Quick question for you. I don't want to reinvent the wheel. I'm > > looking to write a script use wget or some such to grab all the 2005fe > > Tiger files and set up a process to merge the files into some national > > datasets. I'd like to write the code so that to update to further > > TIGER releases all you would have to do is change the url for the > > fetching process. > > > > Things I'd like to end up with: > > geocoder.us index > > (is TIGER the source for the city, state and zip lookups too?) > > streets shapefile either merged or perstate with shape index with > > overviews (local roads filtered out, roads generalized) > > Properly generalized/merged base map datasets like congressional districts > > etc. > > > > Basically, I'd like a process that we could give to anyone so they > > could freely get the most up-to-date US basemap (suitable for > > Mapserver in my case) possible (rather than paying the several hundred > > to couple thousand bucks that a lot of folks are charging to do this > > work). I'm trying to get some national basemaps together for a > > non-profit I'm doing work for. > > > > Any pointers to existing code? Any comments? Anyone else interested > > in this kind of thing? > > > > > > David > > _______________________________________________ > > Geowanking mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
