On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Peter Budny <pet...@gatech.edu> wrote: > Nathan Edgars II <nerou...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> TIGER's state highway data is pretty horrible. For example, in >> Florida, there are many so-called state roads that were given to the >> counties in the 1980s. It seems most have been fixed, but here's an >> example: >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=30.4537&lon=-85.2118&zoom=14&layers=M > > I'm planning on using the tiger:base_name tag, since that seems to be > pretty consistently applied (except that TIGER couldn't decide whether > to use "State Highway" or "State Route" or "SR"... but I can just search > for all known combinations of names). > > The area you linked seems to have these tags intact for FL 20, FL 73, > FL 287, and FL 287A. Did I overlook something?
287 and 287A have been county roads for the last 20-30 years. > >> You also have major problems in towns, where a route doesn't make a >> turn like it should. > > The generated relations will have to be checked by hand, because of > problems exactly like this. However, 80-90% of the tedious work will be > done, and (I hope) users will be able to walk the relation end-to-end > and fix up the problem spots pretty easily. I just hope people don't take a shortcut and accept the TIGER data. I recently had to clean up after someone doing this in north Florida: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/11057836/history http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/10991196/history _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
