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

[Juanse]

Sorry but before going to goggle.cl  can some one give me a brief idea of
what are those TIGERs? who made them, what do they cover, scale or
presicion?.

Juanse
temuko-Chile

----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas, Cord <cthomas at rand.org>
To: <postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net>
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 3:28 PM
Subject: RE: [postgis-users] Interest in open-source road data


> As Raj suggested, I have posted a story on www.geoenabler.org.  We can
> continue the discussion there.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric L. Blevins [mailto:eblevins at insight.rr.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 11:40 PM
> To: postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net
> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Interest in open-source road data
>
>
> 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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