[postgis-users] Interest in open-source road data

[Eric L. Blevins]

I am very interested in this!
I am in the beginning of building a postgis DB of TIGER data myself.
A few months back I converted all of TIGER to .shp and is working quite well
at www.WiFiMaps.com

I would be interested in helping with this project.
Also I am very interested in compiling a world dataset in addition to the
TIGER data.
Europe and Australia are some areas of particular interest to me.

Eric L. Blevins


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Graff" <explorer at flame.org>
To: <postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net>
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 4:19 PM
Subject: [postgis-users] Interest in open-source road data


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> I've considered taking the TIGER 2000 data (or, more likely, the 2002
> data when it becomes available) and turning it into an open source
> road database, with additional characteristics such as one-way street
> data, traffic type data, speeds, etc.  The only source for that sort
> of data currently are commercial sources, who want a whole lot of
> money.  I understand why, of course -- they're highly accurate.
>
> The plan is to begin to populate the line segments in TIGER with this
> additional information, keeping track of its source, and to change the
> naming method to include an "official" and/or "primary" name for road
> segments.  There are a lot of roads that are both I-80 and US Highway
> 6, for instance, but where they share a line I-80 is probably the more
> important.  TIGER often misses this.
>
> I'd start with data for the US roads, but would like to spread it to a
> worldwide database, when there is interest for such.
>
> The "funding" plan would be fully free for non-commercial use.
> Commercial use would involve some (fairly small) fee, used to maintain
> the database itself and to perhaps eventually turn this into a
> non-profit organization and hire some real people to maintain it.
>
> The question is, do people here (and I'm starting small :) think this
> sort of thing would be useful and successful?
>
> - --Michael
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