Re: [Talk-us] Road name update challenges

2019-03-02 Thread Clifford Snow
On Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 5:27 AM Mike N wrote: > On 3/1/2019 12:49 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: > > > > One caution - when doing a building/address import a few years ago, we > > discovered errors in the counties address database. They had different > > street names from address street names. The

Re: [Talk-us] Road name update challenges

2019-03-02 Thread Mike N
On 3/1/2019 12:49 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: One caution - when doing a building/address import a few years ago, we discovered errors in the counties address database. They had different street names from address street names. The street names matched the street signs but the addresses had a

Re: [Talk-us] Road name update challenges

2019-03-02 Thread Mike N
On 3/1/2019 10:09 AM, Aaron Forsythe wrote: >> 1. Original TIGER had Ruppe Dr at a nearby but incorrect location. This seems a common enough occurrence that a TIGER data should not be used as permanent source.  It's only there to get the map started and adjustments from TIGER are required.

Re: [Talk-us] Road name update challenges

2019-03-01 Thread Clifford Snow
On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 7:09 AM Aaron Forsythe wrote: > These are all just my opinions, so don't take as fact. I could be wrong. > > > > >> We were able to get a local GIS to release data to OSM. In analyzing > > the data, I notice that address tags are much more carefully updated > > than road

Re: [Talk-us] Road name update challenges

2019-03-01 Thread Aaron Forsythe
These are all just my opinions, so don't take as fact. I could be wrong. >> 1. Original TIGER had Ruppe Dr at a nearby but incorrect location. This seems a common enough occurrence that a TIGER data should not be used as permanent source. It's only there to get the map started and

[Talk-us] Road name update challenges

2019-02-28 Thread Mike N
There have been some road name challenge projects which do excellent work - updating the road network for current changes. In some cases, there are now dueling sources, for example a recent change - https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/666170175/history (I don't fault any editor involved;