On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 13:49 +0100, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > > In San Francisco, for divided highways the old TIGER data used to > bow in to a point every block and we had, I think, automated ways to > split those out in to two straight lines. This is reflected with > little bows on the address lines at each intersection - see guerrero > for example. > > What really needs to be done for TIGER addresses import is match the > streets from TIGER to those in OSM (which should be easy since they > all still have the TIGER id's) and generate the address geometry based > on these. Otherwise someone will need to do all of the geometry > corrections that people have done for this data in the last nearly 2 > years.
I agree that this is the optimal thing to do. But it's really hard, so I'm not volunteering to take it on. If there's anyone out there braver than I, please speak up. :) -- Dave _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us