Eric, A big help would be to have an understanding of how ways are displayed on the overlay. I see different shapes and colors. What do they represent?
I can help with the name expansion. I have a fair number of abbreviations that I've used in Washington State. BTW is your code at https://github.com/ericfischer/osm-tiger-update? Clifford On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Eric Fischer <e...@pobox.com> wrote: > As was just announced on the MapBox blog ( > https://www.mapbox.com/blog/openstreetmap-tiger/) there is a new > OpenStreetMap tracing layer for 2013 Census Bureau TIGER map data in the US. > > The main reason for it, aside from incorporating this year's TIGER > changes, is to provide different features at different zoom levels: > > * At zoom 16 and up, like the TIGER 2012 layer, it shows all the current > TIGER roads so that they can be compared with OpenStreetMap and the > discrepancies corrected. > > * At zoom 12-15, it shows only the TIGER roads that have been changed > since the import in 2006, with the current state of OpenStreetMap masked > out, so you see only the places where TIGER has been changed (and > presumably corrected) but OpenStreetMap hasn't. This should give an easier > overview of what places need attention. > > * At zooms below 12, like the Battle Grid, it also shows discrepancies > between OSM and TIGER, but simplified because the individual streets are > too small to draw in detail. It's a static calculation that will get > periodically refreshed, but not instantly, as OpenStreetMap changes. > > The tile URL is http://{switch:a,b,c}. > tiles.mapbox.com/v3/enf.ho204tap,enf.ho20a3n1,enf.game1617/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.png<http://tiles.mapbox.com/v3/enf.ho204tap,enf.ho20a3n1,enf.game1617/%7Bzoom%7D/%7Bx%7D/%7By%7D.png>but > as the comma-separated list in the URL suggests, it is actually a > composite of three layers that work together: > > TIGER streets/changes: > https://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/enf.ho204tap/page.html?secure=1#14/40.3648/-86.8654 > OpenStreetMap mask: > https://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/enf.ho20a3n1/page.html?secure=1#14/40.3648/-86.8654 > Low zooms: > https://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/enf.game1617/page.html?secure=1#11/40.3648/-86.8654 > > In the pull request for iD (https://github.com/systemed/iD/pull/2010) Ian > Dees pointed out that the abbreviations in street names should expanded and > that it would be good to also include house numbers. I'll be updating the > vector data with expanded names in the next few days and will add the house > numbers as soon as I can. Please let me know if you see anything else that > ought to be better. > > Eric > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > talk...@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > -- Clifford OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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