[Geodata] Ok, I'm here . . . (Tiger stuff.)

[Mikel Maron, OSM]

Hi Chris


From: Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at crschmidt.net>

> I think there is a general consensus that 07 is better in some places
> than 06, and Dave Hansen, who managed the TIGER update, seemed
> relatively confident in the ability to update the existing data (iff the
> data hadn't been manually updated in the meantime), or at least the
> ability to look into it.
>
> There are going to be huge areas of the country that simply don't have
> any mappers in them, but may have updated TIGER information: I think
> that taking the position that "OSM Mappers will simply make it better in
> every way than TIGER" is a bit egocentric. Certainly, there are many
> cases where this is the case -- anywhere where there are active mappers
> -- but there are still less than 20,000 OSM contributors worlwide still,
> I think, and there are nearly 4000000 square miles in the US -- 200
> square miles per contributor, even if they were all in the US, is a lot
> of land to cover accurately. (Some mappers have covered much more, I'm
> sure, but the long tail says that most mappers will cover much less.)

Agreed. In areas where there's been no manual updating, it's worth a look.

Is there any reference comparing TIGER 06 vs 07?

-Mikel
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