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Verm

Member

From: Nelson, B.C. Canada

Registered: 2009-09-25

Posts: 18

I noticed a couple of posts in wiki about "fix up tiger"

I am willing to help with what ever clean up of nodes etc....

Do I just randomly click on every major highway to check if it is in one piece?
Or is there a "to be done" list somewhere?

just point me in the right direction.

Oh, speaking of cleanup...

I noticed that a few POI have shown up on my town map... I don't believe I made them and when I click on them there is no info... no tag or ref...
Just a green dot for no apparent reason.
Should I leave them or clean them out?

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Verm

Member

From: Nelson, B.C. Canada

Registered: 2009-09-25

Posts: 18

Re: I noticed a couple of posts in wiki about "fix up tiger"

Edit:  OK, i found the map with the 6000+ markers of fixes that need to be done.
I did one and would like someone to take a quick look if i did it right.
changeset id: 2633905
I think I did it right because if you click on that highway, it now shows as one continuous "editable" instead of 3 seperate ones.

Also.. on the map where I did the change... next to the highway (to the east) there is a whole string of POI green dots... lots of them!..
what is that about?

P.S.  I tried to edit original post... but the edits don't take.

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MikeN

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Registered: 2009-09-03

Posts: 328

Re: I noticed a couple of posts in wiki about "fix up tiger"

Yes, the ways are now connected, so the doubled nodes have been corrected.

Be careful about combining 2 sequential roads with different names, which will be more common when editing other road data.   It's better to somehow find point where the 2 ways connect to 2 points that are on top of each other, then just combine the 2 nodes instead.     I'm not sure how to do that in Potlatch.

Many of these cases are where 2 county lines meet - all kinds of strange conditions came from Tiger data, including roads with overlapping sections of ways.