I pulled together some info I wanted to share: what is the longest connected group of untouched TIGER imported roadways in the U.S.? The answer is this 1258.6km group of ways in Brooks County, Texas. And then below will be the rest of the info I found. I haven’t done anything with it, I just wanted to share.

Note: the Overpass queries I link directly to are all relatively quick since they’re just lists of way IDs. But for some of them I link to pastebin since they were too long to pass in a url.

Overpass Turbo - Brooks County, TX

Idea

The full results are here as a spreadsheet but I also want to explain.

I was looking at the results of the query for unedited ways and nodes in an area near me and noticed there were way more untouched roads than I thought there would be.

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I wanted to share my experience finding and fixing a misplaced lake and dam as an example of what I’ve been working on in case it’s of interest to anyone else. I think I’ve picked a good example of what I’ve been finding. I also tried to make it as short and to the point as possible and then made this too long anyway. Here we go!

Finding a problem

Rowe Lake (gnis:feature_id=1640193) (node) and Rowe Lake Dam (gnis:feature_id=1640194)(node) were two nodes on the side of a mountain next to a road in Monroe County, Tennessee. There were two problems with that:

1. On satellite there was no lake or dam visible in the area. Which isn’t proof this is the wrong location, but it looks like solid trees.
2. The GNIS tags on both nodes had them in county 157: Shelby County, over 300 miles away on the other side of the state.

Not finding a solution

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