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

Mikel Maron, OSM mikel at osmfoundation.org
Tue Jun 24 14:34:54 EDT 2008




----- Original Message ----
From: David William Bitner <david.bitner at gmail.com>

> I'm having a hard time finding specifics of what's been done between
> 2006 and 2007, but the thing to watch are when counties have been
> updated through the MAF/TIGER improvement project
> (http://www.census.gov/geo/mod/maftiger.html).  I can find a list of
> counties that are still *not* updated --
> http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2007/tgrshp07nomtaip.txt --
> but it would be really nice to just have a list of when each county
> has been updated to the new standards.  The above list would
> definitely be a starting point as to where OSM would likely be better
> (at a minimum it would indicate minimal changes from the already
> imported TIGER data in OSM).

200 million contract to update TIGER!! The quality better be outstanding!

If they had only asked, we could have saved them tons of money.

Anyhow, thanks for the link David, helpful.
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