On 10/25/2012 12:34 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
We're talking about promoting a US project like fixing TIGER deserts / Ghost towns[1] for the next NOTLM (date to be set). Good idea?
I would say that this is a good idea. If a curious person (non-OSM contributor) were to look at a garbled set of TIGER streets, they might not even start with basic contributions such as verifying the streets where they live and work, or adding POI. Learning how to correct those TIGER streets would be a huge obstacle.
So my input would be to find not only TIGER deserts, but those which appear to have been created from GPSs carried before the GPS signals were unscrambled. Generally, these were entire counties. Some of the TIGER datasets have been updated to current technology standards. Detecting this could be by comparing the alignment of unedited OSM to latest TIGER.
Otherwise, I'm not sure how to tell if a TIGER desert was good to begin with, or just never touched as well as being far out of alignment.
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