[Roadster] Status & Roadmap

[Raphael Jacquot]

Scott Bronson wrote:

> Not really.  I played around with routing via Tiger when I was living
> in Boston (admittedly, one of the more difficult American cities to
> route) and found utter failure.  Wrong way down one-way streets,
> jumping from highway to city streets without an exit, ignoring
> expressways, taking very roundabout paths, etc.  It was dismal.

this is to be expected, as tiger doesn't have one-way information for
most roads.

> http://openstreetmap.org would be an excellent, collaborative way to
> fix this but it will take a *long* time and there seems to be very
> little interest in the U.S.  (incidentally, what database format does
> OSM use?)

we are starting to import tiger in the system, with the goal of updating
the info in there with more information (such as oneway)

> I was toying with the idea of writing a program that would find
> identical routes on any of the big maps (Google, Yahoo, etc -- they
> all use Navteq) and Tiger to find specific areas where Tiger is
> deficient.  Tempting, but I'd probably have to keep it on the DL since
> -- even if I only used the results to show areas that need to be fixed
> and didn't copy any data -- it probably violates their acceptable use
> policies.  And, given my time lately, there's not much danger of my
> ever getting around to this.  *sigh*

participate in OSM, you'll help the thing get better ;D