Re: [Talk-us] Admin boundaries tied to roads

2010-04-23 Thread Lord-Castillo, Brett
-Original Message- From: Apollinaris Schoell [mailto:ascho...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 9:47 AM To: Lord-Castillo, Brett Cc: 'talk-us@openstreetmap.org' Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Admin boundaries tied to roads On 23 Apr 2010, at 7:13 , Lord-Castillo, Brett wrote: On

Re: [Talk-us] Admin boundaries tied to roads

2010-04-23 Thread Brad Neuhauser
I'd agree with Brett on the boundaries. The Census data is not perfect by any means, but it's pretty good, at least in my area--Minnesota. (and orders of magnitude better than it was in 2000!) And if it's not good in your area, you should talk to your local government and make sure they're

Re: [Talk-us] Admin boundaries tied to roads

2010-04-23 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.comwrote: The bigger issue with it being imported into OSM is the currency, because municipal boundaries are always changing, and as has been mentioned, boundaries are not usually something that is easily verifiable on the

Re: [Talk-us] Admin boundaries tied to roads

2010-04-23 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-04-23 18:11, Anthony wrote: A navi system is more useful if the instructions and signs match. Depends on your purpose. If you're trying to navigate to the missigned street (e.g. California Street, where the sign reads Carolina Street), you don't want to get a response of street not

Re: [Talk-us] Admin boundaries tied to roads

2010-04-23 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-04-23 07:47, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: While I understand the mantra of TIGER=Bad because of the state of the road data, this is not true for the boundary data. Most of the boundary data comes directly from recorded surveys (something not available for roads) and is not bad data

Re: [Talk-us] Admin boundaries tied to roads

2010-04-23 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-04-22 13:33, andrzej zaborowski wrote: On 22 April 2010 17:40, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 Apr 2010, at 17:12 , andrzej zaborowski wrote: The signs are posted there by authorities so this is similar to having access to a tiny piece of a map or database made

Re: [Talk-us] Admin boundaries tied to roads

2010-04-23 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
On 23 Apr 2010, at 19:46 , Alan Mintz wrote: At 2010-04-23 07:47, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: I don't know about completely. The parts of the Kern/LA/Orange/San Bernardino/Riverside/San Diego borders that I have surveyed are at least close to the signage at important points (admittedly a

Re: [Talk-us] Admin boundaries tied to roads

2010-04-23 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2010-04-22 13:09, andrzej zaborowski wrote: On 22 April 2010 04:24, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: At 2010-04-21 17:12, andrzej zaborowski wrote: On 22 April 2010 01:18, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:36 PM, andrzej zaborowski