problems with Tiger road data

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Friday 25 May 2007 13:24, Gregor Mosheh wrote:
> > Does anyone know what might cause this county to be so much worse than
> > the others, and if there is some way I can fix the data?
>
> As to why that coounty is bad: the problem is probably more political
> than technical. Counties spend money differently, have different
> surveying crews, and so on.
>
> As to fixing it, I suspect that your best bet would be to purchase
> better-quality road data for the county in question. TIGER is
> notoriously incomplete and inaccurate, despite the recent drive toward
> its improvement.
>
> Sorry that doesn't help...

Looks like it wasn't all that hard to fix with an affine transform:

http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/drupal/node/433

thanks for the tips.

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Dylan Beaudette
Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group
University of California at Davis
530.754.7341