Re: [Talk-us] musings on TIGER tags

2010-11-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On 11/23/2010 08:13 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Antony Pegg apegg-QyUQbcD9tSJWk0Htik3J/w...@public.gmane.org wrote: I agree with most of this. One very useful thing I've found tho is the (off the top of my head) tiger:name_type=aly seems all the alley's

Re: [Talk-us] musings on TIGER tags

2010-11-25 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: I doubt anybody would protest mass-updating alleyways... Except that tiger:name_type=Aly doesn't mean it's an alley, only that the street is named Foo Alley. I looked at Florida and in addition to errors there are cases

[Talk-us] musings on TIGER tags

2010-11-23 Thread Nathan Edgars II
tiger:cfcc: census feature class codes used to differentiate feature types; describes the importance (generally primary=U.S. Highway, secondary=state highway) and type of road Accuracy: low. Alignments of main routes through towns almost never take the proper turns. Bridges and tunnels are often

Re: [Talk-us] musings on TIGER tags

2010-11-23 Thread Antony Pegg
I agree with most of this. One very useful thing I've found tho is the (off the top of my head) tiger:name_type=aly seems all the alley's got imported as highway=residential - at least in my area - so the tiger tag is very useful for doing a JOSM search for all alleyways and changing them

Re: [Talk-us] musings on TIGER tags

2010-11-23 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Antony Pegg ap...@nexuspro.com wrote: I agree with most of this. One very useful thing I've found tho is the (off the top of my head) tiger:name_type=aly seems all the alley's got imported as highway=residential - at least in my area - so the tiger tag is

Re: [Talk-us] musings on TIGER tags

2010-11-23 Thread Antony Pegg
On 11/23/2010 9:13 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Antony Peggap...@nexuspro.com wrote: I agree with most of this. One very useful thing I've found tho is the (off the top of my head) tiger:name_type=aly seems all the alley's got imported as highway=residential -

Re: [Talk-us] musings on TIGER tags

2010-11-23 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Antony Pegg anttheli...@gmail.com wrote: hmmmhow might one perform this XAPI query of which thou dost speak?! ctrl-L, http://xapi.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/*%5bbbox=[you can copy this part from the bookmarks pane of the download box]%5d%5btiger:name_type=Aly

Re: [Talk-us] musings on TIGER tags

2010-11-23 Thread Antony Pegg
On 11/23/2010 9:36 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Antony Pegganttheli...@gmail.com wrote: hmmmhow might one perform this XAPI query of which thou dost speak?! ctrl-L, http://xapi.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/*%5bbbox=[you can copy this part from the bookmarks

Re: [Talk-us] musings on TIGER tags

2010-11-23 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, a tiger:name_type=Aly XAPI query is slightly more convenient than downloading all the streets and searching for name:aly. Of course there may be the occasional street named Foo Alley that's not actually an alley,

Re: [Talk-us] musings on TIGER tags

2010-11-23 Thread Dave Hansen
On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 05:24 -0500, Nathan Edgars II wrote: tiger:cfcc: census feature class codes used to differentiate feature types; describes the importance (generally primary=U.S. Highway, secondary=state highway) and type of road Accuracy: low. Alignments of main routes through towns