Scott Bronson wrote: > Not really. I played around with routing via Tiger when I was living > in Boston (admittedly, one of the more difficult American cities to > route) and found utter failure. Wrong way down one-way streets, > jumping from highway to city streets without an exit, ignoring > expressways, taking very roundabout paths, etc. It was dismal.
this is to be expected, as tiger doesn't have one-way information for most roads. > http://openstreetmap.org would be an excellent, collaborative way to > fix this but it will take a *long* time and there seems to be very > little interest in the U.S. (incidentally, what database format does > OSM use?) we are starting to import tiger in the system, with the goal of updating the info in there with more information (such as oneway) > I was toying with the idea of writing a program that would find > identical routes on any of the big maps (Google, Yahoo, etc -- they > all use Navteq) and Tiger to find specific areas where Tiger is > deficient. Tempting, but I'd probably have to keep it on the DL since > -- even if I only used the results to show areas that need to be fixed > and didn't copy any data -- it probably violates their acceptable use > policies. And, given my time lately, there's not much danger of my > ever getting around to this. *sigh* participate in OSM, you'll help the thing get better ;D _______________________________________________ roadster mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/roadster
