On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:15 PM, andrzej zaborowski <balr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 31 July 2010 04:06, Nathan Edgars II <nerou...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:40 PM, andrzej zaborowski <balr...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> I can imagine someone making some clever scripts and then manually
>>> verifying it where there are doubts as a kind of personal project of
>>> the week or something.  A couple of months ago Marcus Wolschon has
>>> been reporting on the general talk list on his progress in adding the
>>> TMC road IDs to OSM in some parts of Germany or Austria.  TMC is some
>>> kind of radio broadcast current traffic amount estimates, some satnavs
>>> can use it to avoid traffic jams automatically.
>>
>> Sounds like a useful ID number to map. Unlike TLIDs.
>
> Internet is a *network* of linked databases [1].. if someone has a TMC
> to TIGER mapping, you get a TMC to OSM mapping for free.

Doesn't look like TMC is tied to ways, let alone the exact ways that
TIGER uses: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_Message_Channel#Criticism
Have fun with your useless TLIDs.

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