This is a neat little snippet of OT code, thanks Martijn. I’ve entered something similar for my county (in California) linked in our (county-level) wiki, it produces a bit “richer / deeper” a set of data (both nodes and ways).
I really, really miss the wonderful, deprecated (summer of '19?) ITO World “TIGER Cleanup” (I think it was called) renderer. I used this to clean (and clean, and clean, and clean…) my county until I got to something like 75% or 80% “done” (I might give my efforts a solid B-?!) and then that particular renderer quit. So sad.
I’ve looked for other “prettified” helpers / renderers to aid in TIGER cleanup, as in many cases, automation is quite ad hoc, specific to a county, state, aboriginal_land (again, Martijn, thanks for the tip about Navajo Nation, I’ll go take a look). Alas, there aren’t any renderers that suit my fancy, so what little work I now do (in my county, really) to improve TIGER is from my OT query. Somehow, because it isn’t as pretty as that ITO World version, I clean up TIGER less than I used to. I think it was the color-scheme (red, orange, light-blue, dark-blue, I think) and rather clever reasons (including “3 year aging since last edited”) that made it truly useful. I know if we got a replication or close to it, I (for one) would slash away towards 90%, then towards 100% (again, in my county, where I concentrate my mapping efforts, especially for TIGER fixup).
I do recall one august volunteer in this project (I have a lot of offline email conversations with him) calling TIGER, in many cases, “not much better than an hallucination.”
Anyway, I’m dedicated to improving TIGER data, locally, more widely (statewide, and indeed, there is a lot to be said for state-by-state “divide and conquer,” as we’ve done a decent job of whacking rail data from TIGER down, though there’s still tens of thousands of rail miles to go, and these aren’t getting easier to quantify). I’d love to know that better tools are available. OT queries are good, but they’re wonky and largely used by the more geek-inclined (no offense to geeks, I actually proudly have the word on a license plate of a car of mine).
Yes, it might be the 2040s before we clean it all up. My sleeves are rolled up, and have been for a while.