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From Chattanooga to Mayfair
Posted by Harry Wood on 30 July 2009 in English. Last updated on 31 July 2009.We've been pondering TIGER fixup in the states, and getting basic interstate routing working. I think Andy's going to blog about it a bit more. I made a fun clickable visualisation of routing connections. You can use it to figure out where major connectivity problems exist in the tiger data, or you can use it to test your knowledge of U.S. cities!
Cities like... Chattanooga. Never heard of it? Neither had I, but I've spent a good few hours editing the motorway junctions there. Like this one for example:
But this evening we're turning our thoughts closer to home. Tonight's mapping party is in Mayfair. Come join us!
I picked this location based on detailed analysis of cross-correlated data visualisations, but it turns out I should've just asked Dave why he didn't map the postboxes around there when he was mapping it back in 2006. Time to revisit the area I'd say... If you're in London, come join us tonight!
Discussion
Comment from Thea Clay on 30 July 2009 at 15:49
There is a great mapper in Chattanooga named Randy. I'll pass this on to him.
Comment from davidearl on 30 July 2009 at 17:34
Never heard of Chattanooga? Glenn Miller? - http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/glenn_miller/chattanooga_choo_choo-lyrics-157587.html
Comment from rjhale1971 on 31 July 2009 at 03:24
MayFair? Never heard of it. Motorway Junctions? What are you barmy? (Found a british to english phrases site - did I do well?)
Randy Hale
Chattanooga TN
....of the infamous GA URISA Board..... or slightly infamous.
Comment from Harry Wood on 31 July 2009 at 13:00
Hi Randy. A real Chattanoogan! Excellent. So if you're ever driving on that particular bit of motorway you might want to check the oneway directions I've put on there. Think I've got them right, but it gets a bit confusing in the middle of the junction there. So we need to work on turning Chattanooga green. D'you have a green patch over on the East side of Chattanooga there?
Chattanooga Choo Choo hey? I've been trying to focus on motorways (freeways/iterstates/whater you call them), but I did get side-tracked by a few Chattanooga choo choo railways (also very messed up in the TIGER data)
Matt actually asked me to add a feature to my U.S. cities map to play a tune when you click on them. Seems like there's well known tunes about most of them. e.g. "Show me the way to Amarillo"... (This time last week there was only one way to Amarillo, but now it's connected to 128 cities. Hurrah!)
Comment from Minh Nguyen on 1 August 2009 at 08:35
So does OSM Know the Way to San Jose yet?
Comment from randomjunk on 2 August 2009 at 09:23
Harry... we didn't have any roads back then, and we only just got Yahoo.. there was no way I was stopping for postboxes :-)
Comment from Harry Wood on 3 August 2009 at 11:57
@randomjunk Yes back in 2006, given that you single-handedly mapped the the area of Thursday's entire cake during that old mapping party, I suppose we can forgive you for not mapping the post boxes :-)