Re: [OSM-talk] Duplicate TIGER ways along county lines

2009-08-24 Thread Shaun McDonald
When I'm fixing these, I just delete one of the ways in OSM and make sure that all the other connections are correct. It really doesn't matter about the tiger tags. As I don't know where there are county boundaries, I've just been leaving them as is (though occasionally been having to move

Re: [OSM-talk] Duplicate TIGER ways along county lines

2009-08-23 Thread John Smith
--- On Mon, 24/8/09, dasdje...@comcast.net wrote: > How necessary is it to preserve left and > right zip codes in the way data? (These are frequently > inaccurate, and I would prefer not to have to research > them). It shouldn't be necessary to keep county, state, country or zip/post codes in a

Re: [OSM-talk] Duplicate TIGER ways along county lines

2009-08-23 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
don't waste too much time trying to make sense of broken data. fix it in the best possible way and delete tags which don't make sense anymore. time of mappers is better spent on fixing the data instead of fiddle around with nearly useless tags. osm data is dynamic everyone can edit everything

[OSM-talk] Duplicate TIGER ways along county lines

2009-08-23 Thread dasdjenne
Good evening,   I have been editing the map around Denver, CO, but so far have avoided fixing duplicate ways straddling county lines.   I.e., one physical way is represented by two ways, one for each county.   For a correct and visually pleasing map, ease in joining intersecting ways, et