TIGER
 Part of WikiProject United States.
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The Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing system (TIGER) data, produced by the US Census Bureau, is a public domain data source which has many geographic features. The TIGER/Line files are extracts of selected geographic information, including roads, boundaries, and hydrography features. All of the roads were imported into OSM in 2007 and 2008, populating the nearly empty map of the United States.
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TIGER 2010
The TIGER/Line 2010 data were released on a state by state basis from November 2010 through March 2011. Go to the TIGER 2010 wiki page to coordinate coverage.
Status
It is unlikely that the TIGER data will ever be re-imported. Enough editing has occurred since the original upload of the TIGER 2005 data (which was not uploaded until 2007) that it will be difficult to determine if differences between future TIGER and OSM are due to good corrections made by OSM editors or they are from bad TIGER data. With the US mapping community growing strongly now, it isn't as much of a concern. Do not worry about getting your work overwritten by new TIGER data. Go map!
However, TIGER may be useful for analyzing differences with OSM, and for partial import and merging using tools such as JOSM. Please visit the page for the latest release of TIGER data for more information, which is currently TIGER 2010.
Lots of cleanup remains to be done from the initial import. The TIGER fixup page lists things to look for when fixing TIGER data.
History
An import of the 2005 TIGER/Line data was completed in 2007. This was featured in a Linux.com article from January 23, 2008, titled "OpenStreetMap project completes import of United States TIGER data".
An initial run took place in 2005, but unfortunately had to be shut off, and data purged, in November 2006 due to data integrity problems. See Old TIGER Import 2005/2006 for more information. A second, successful import followed a different philosophy, and began in September 2007 using a new Ruby-based TIGER conversion script. Here is a post describing this import in more detail. Also see the TIGER 2005 page.
See also
- TIGER 2010 - the most recent TIGER data
- TIGER fixup
- TIGER 2009
- TIGER 2007
- TIGER 2005
- Old TIGER Import 2005/2006
- TIGER to OSM Attribute Map - attribute map used for data prior to 2007, when the switch was made to using MTFCC's instead of CFCC's
